Sync with upstream version 0.4

[fain182]

Current version of specto (0.3.1) has bug that make it unusable, like #456095 .
It should be updated to the upstream version 0.4 (there are already some public PPA with it, I don't think that's problematic to package).

[Ian (superian)]

+1

Currently the package is broken for checking anything needing the network.

http://code.google.com/p/specto/issues/detail?id=327 is the basic problem, but given this was known about months ago, Specto should not have made it into 11.10 in this state.

As an added bonus, 0.4.1 has a variety of new plugins adding to its functionality.

[Mark (mark--)]

+1

Specto is a neat program. I'm surprised it isn't more popular.

[Narcis Garcia (narcisgarcia)]

Specto isn't more popular because doesn't work just installing it from repositories.
I don't know what to do exactly to make Specto networking to work.

In their Google's website say "Specto is unmaintained"
http://code.google.com/p/specto/

http://jeff.ecchi.ca/blog/2013/03/21/a-programs-obsolescence/

[Narcis Garcia (narcisgarcia)]

I patched the file /usr/share/pyshared/spectlib/watch.py manually:

FROM:
    def check_connection(self):
        if not self.specto.connection_manager.connected():
            self.specto.logger.log(_("No network connection detected"), "warning", self.name)
            self.specto.connection_manager.add_callback(self.start_checking)
            self.specto.mark_watch_status("no-network", self.id)
            return False
        else:
            self.specto.mark_watch_status("idle", self.id)
            return True

TO:

    def check_connection(self):
# if not self.specto.connection_manager.connected():
# self.specto.logger.log(_("No network connection detected"), "warning", self.name)
# self.specto.connection_manager.add_callback(self.start_checking)
# self.specto.mark_watch_status("no-network", self.id)
# return False
# else:
            self.specto.mark_watch_status("idle", self.id)
            return True

[Logan Rosen (logan)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 990201, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.