Bug#726395: Bug#681834: Bug#726395: gnome-control-center: Please downgrade dependency on network-manager-gnome to Recommends (violates tech-ctte decision otherwise)

[Don Armstrong]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2013, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 16:09 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-gnome/desktop/unstable/gnome-control-center/debian/control.in?r1=37425&r2=37515
> > 
> > Assuming the rest of the gnome control center will work without NM,
> > and only the network control panel would fail, then this Depends:
> > isn't strictly necessary, though it may be the case that a
> > Recommends: is warranted.
> 
> This needs to be tested, my gut feeling would be that we really want a
> Recommends to prevent weird & unexpected failure modes in the control
> center, but the Depends can probably downgraded to comply with the
> CTTE decision.

OK. Would a Breaks be enough to make sure the correct version of NM is
installed? [Alex: can you test to make sure that the failure mode of the
gnome control center is reasonable without NM installed?]

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