[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#694695: network-manager-gnome: wifi selection fails silently w/o gnome-keyring

[chrysn]

Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 0.9.4.1-2
Severity: normal

when installed without gnome-keyring, connecting to unknown protected
wireless networks fails silently. nm-applet's output shows:

Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: The name
org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any service files

looking up that service led me the way to installing gnome-keyring, and
things work now. as connecting to wifi is the most common use case for
network-manager, gnome-keyring should at least be in the Recommends
field of the package.

alternatively, if bug #502644 was resolved, there would be an error
message when a user tries to connect to an unknown wifi network, or
those networks wouldn't be shown at all.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome depends on:
ii  dbus-x11              1.6.8-1
ii  dpkg                  1.16.9
ii  gconf-service         3.2.5-1+build1
ii  gconf2                3.2.5-1+build1
ii  gnome-icon-theme      3.4.0-2
ii  libatk1.0-0           2.4.0-2
ii  libc6                 2.13-35
ii  libcairo-gobject2     1.12.2-2
ii  libcairo2             1.12.2-2
ii  libdbus-1-3           1.6.8-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2      0.100-1
ii  libgconf-2-4          3.2.5-1+build1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0    2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0          2.33.12+really2.32.4-3
ii  libgnome-bluetooth10  3.4.2-1
ii  libgnome-keyring0     3.4.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0            3.4.2-4
ii  libnm-glib-vpn1       0.9.4.0-6
ii  libnm-glib4           0.9.4.0-6
ii  libnm-gtk0            0.9.4.1-2
ii  libnm-util2           0.9.4.0-6
ii  libnotify4            0.7.5-1
ii  libpango1.0-0         1.30.0-1
ii  network-manager       0.9.4.0-6
ii  policykit-1-gnome     0.105-2

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
pn  gnome-bluetooth                      <none>
ii  iso-codes                            3.40-1
pn  libpam-keyring                       <none>
ii  mobile-broadband-provider-info       20120708-1
ii  xfce4-notifyd [notification-daemon]  0.2.2-2

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome suggests:
pn  network-manager-openconnect-gnome  <none>
pn  network-manager-openvpn-gnome      <none>
pn  network-manager-pptp-gnome         <none>
pn  network-manager-vpnc-gnome         <none>

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