[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#513758: network-manager: upgrading to 0.7 install/recommends gnome on kde desktop

[Sten Heinze]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.6-2
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 7.2


I am not sure against which package this bug should be reported, network-manager or policykit. Please reassign if necessary.

Upgrading network-manager from 0.6.6-2 to 0.7.0-1 causes most of Gnome to be installed:

$ apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  network-manager
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
$ apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  consolekit defoma esound-clients esound-common fam fontconfig fontconfig-config gconf2 gconf2-common gnome-keyring 
  gnome-mime-data gnome-mount hicolor-icon-theme libart-2.0-2 libaudiofile0 libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data 
  libavahi-common3 libavahi-glib1 libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libcairo2 
  libck-connector0 libcups2 libdatrie0 libdirectfb-1.0-0 libeel2-2.20 libeel2-data libenchant1c2a libesd0 libfam0 
  libfontconfig1 libgail-common libgail18 libgconf2-4 libglade2-0 libgnome-keyring0 libgnome-menu2 libgnome2-0 
  libgnome2-common libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-0 
  libgnomevfs2-common libgnomevfs2-extra libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libhunspell-1.2-0 libidl0 
  libjpeg62 libmalaga7 libnautilus-extension1 libnm-glib0 libnm-util1 libnotify1 liborbit2 libpam-ck-connector 
  libpam-gnome-keyring libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpcap0.8 libpolkit-dbus2 libpolkit-gnome0 libpolkit-grant2 
  libpolkit2 libsexy2 libsmbclient libstartup-notification0 libtalloc1 libthai-data libthai0 libtiff4 libts-0.0-0 
  libttf2 libvoikko1 libwbclient0 libwnck-common libwnck22 libxcb-render-util0 libxcb-render0 libxcomposite1 
  libxcursor1 libxft2 libxinerama1 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxres1 myspell-en-us notification-daemon policykit 
  policykit-gnome portmap ppp shared-mime-info ttf-dejavu ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra x-ttcidfont-conf
The following packages will be upgraded:
  network-manager
1 upgraded, 103 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 15.0MB/32.7MB of archives.
After this operation, 99.7MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.

This happens because of recommends:

$ aptitude why network-manager libgnomevfs2-0
p   network-manager Recommends policykit
p   policykit       Recommends policykit-gnome
p   policykit-gnome Depends    libgnomevfs2-0 (>= 1:2.17.90)

$ apt-get --no-install-recommends dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libnm-glib0 libnm-util1 libpolkit-dbus2 libpolkit2
The following packages will be upgraded:
  network-manager
1 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 191kB/1330kB of archives.
After this operation, 1876kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.

This happens even without having a Gnome desktop (since I am using KDE). I see in this a serious violation of the policy, since "The Recommends field 
should list packages that would be found together with this one", which in turn means recommends must not contain packages that are not found 
together. And Gnome is usually not found on KDE desktops.

Thanks,
Sten

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.10-sh-pentiumm (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.110      add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                          1.2.1-5    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcdbd                        3.0-5      D-Bus interface to the ISC DHCP cl
ii  hal                           0.5.11-8   Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown                      0.6.8+nmu1 high level tools to configure netw
ii  iproute                       20080725-2 networking and traffic control too
ii  libc6                         2.7-18     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.1-5    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.76-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                   1.4.1-1    LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.16.6-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpg-error0                 1.4-2      library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                       0.5.11-8   Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libiw29                       29-1.1     Wireless tools - library
ii  libnl1                        1.1-2      library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-util0                   0.6.6-3    network management framework (shar
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-20     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  wpasupplicant                 0.6.4-3    Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
pn  network-manager-gnome | netwo <none>     (no description available)

network-manager suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information