[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#573356: Bug#573356:

[Michael Biebl]

On 12.03.2010 01:04, Petter Dass wrote:
> Hi!
> I believe that it IS a bug.
> The reason for that is that it worked fine when it was a fresh install.
> Then suddenly it stopped working.
> If I was missing a package: How did the package suddenly go missing? I did
> not uninstall it.
> Packages should not uninstall themselves randomly.
> Maybe the package manager did this?
> I would definitely call this a bug.

In nm < 0.7.2, the network-manager package, had the modem management
functionality integrated into nm itself.
For 0.8 it was split into a separate package, called modemmanager.
modemmanager is a recommends of network-manager, thus by default it will be
installed on upgrades from previous versions *and* fresh installs.

When you upgraded, you explicitly decided to not install modemmanager, so one
could argue that this is your fault ;-)

Might also be an odditity of the apt frontend you are using. At least apt-get
and aptitude work as expected.

Michael


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