Bug#681737: Bug#682960: unblock (pre-aproval): gnome-shell/3.4.2-1

[Mike Miller]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 12:44:13AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 28.07.2012 00:31, schrieb Mike Miller:
> > Just happened to spot this, sorry if I'm intruding, but how about
> > fixing RC bug #681737 in this release? It's an easy cherry-pick patch,
> > fuzz-free, I've been running with this patch applied for over a week
> > with no problems.
> 
> While we should definitely fix this issue for wheezy, the upstream patch
> only works, if we update *all* NM vpn plugins to supply an absolute path
> in their corresponding .name file. (I assume you manually patched the
> .name file on your local system?)

Yes.

> It might be easier to just change gnome-shell to look for the
> vpn-auth-dialogs in /usr/lib/NetworkManager instead of Config.LIBEXECDIR
> (which expands to /usr/lib/gnome-shell).

True enough. That was how I was looking at it until I ran across the
upstream bug report. Solving it that way is slightly more coordination
now, but it's future-proof and less coordination later.

If you all decide hardcoding gnome-shell to /usr/lib/NetworkManager is
the best for wheezy, that's fine too.

-- 
mike