[Bug 1641012] Re: FAHControl needs python-support which is not available in 16.04

[madbiologist]

Thanks, I'll take this up with Folding at home as I downloaded FAHControl
directly from their web site.

I forgot to mention that there are reports from people who were running
FAHControl on Ubuntu 15.10 and when they upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 it
still ran normally.  I did a clean install of Ubuntu 16.04.

Would repackaging FAHControl to suit Ubuntu 16.04 cause a problem when
attempting to use it on Ubuntu 15.10 or other distributions that use
python2?  Or can a package dependency be set to either/or?

Is there any way I can modify the package dependencies myself, or
repackage FAHControl myself?

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Title:
  FAHControl needs python-support which is not available in 16.04

Status in python-defaults package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I have installed FAHControl (the detailed GUI control for FAHClient
  (the Folding at home client)) on Ubuntu 16.04 but when I launch it it's
  icon flashes in the launcher and then disappears after a few seconds
  and nothing else happens.

  I ran sudo apt-get check and found:

  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   fahcontrol : Depends: python-support (>= 0.90.0) but it is not installable
                Depends: python-gnome2 but it is not installed

  sudo apt-cache policy python-support gives:

  python-support:
    Installed: (none)
    Candidate: (none)
    Version table:

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-support shows that this
  package was available in previous Ubuntu versions.  I read on
  askubuntu that it was removed as part of Ubuntu's upgrade from python2
  to python3.

  I would like to get FAHControl running on Ubuntu 16.04.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: python 2.7.11-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-47.68-generic 4.4.24
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-47-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Fri Nov 11 15:32:56 2016
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-11-05 (5 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
  SourcePackage: python-defaults
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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