Ubuntu
backintime package

  1. Bug #789452
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Comment 0 for bug 789452

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PeterPall (peterpall) wrote : Missing gnome3 support (transition from pygth to python-gobject necessary?)

The next version of ubuntu will switch to gnome3.

According to synaptic backintime-gnome seems to be using pygtk. And according to http://blog.rabbitvcs.org/archives/293 pygtk will never be ported to gnome3. He normally is very well-informed as he is the maintainer of nautilus-python and rabbitvcs.
http://www.pygtk.org/ does approve that pygtk will no more be actively develop but does not tell about it being not supported at all in gnome3: "Existing authors of PyGTK applications are also recommended to port their applications to PyGObject to take advantage of new features appearing in GTK-3 and beyond." so I don't know if porting is immediately necessary or if it will be in the far future.

Seems like the successor of pygtk is http://live.gnome.org/PyGObject. The good news is that according to http://live.gnome.org/PyGObject/IntrospectionPorting (you have to scroll down a bit about to find any valid information on porting) porting seems to be doable, at least.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: backintime-gnome (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.39-3.9-generic 2.6.39
Uname: Linux 2.6.39-3-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat May 28 07:12:15 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
SourcePackage: backintime
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)