[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#440143: Bug#440143: network-manager: No GNOME applet (yet)

[Michael Biebl]

Cyril Brulebois schrieb:
> Andrew McMillan <debian at mcmillan.net.nz> (30/08/2007):
>> The package control file says "Replaces: network-manager-gnome" which
>> appears to be a complete falsehood!  There is no nm-applet in there at
>> all, which the changelog also states.
> 
> According to the changelog, not accurate:
> | + Add Conflicts/Replaces: network-manager-gnome (<< 0.6.5-1) as [...]
> 
> Not doing so would be a grave bug (file conflict between packages).

This Conflict/Replaces is necesessary, as the network-manager binary
package now ships files which were previously part of the
network-manager-gnome package. So this is required to ensure a proper
upgrade.

>> Unfortunately there is also no nm-applet anywhere else, as far as I can
>> see.  Even worse, I can't find any Debian source to build one from.
> 
> http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html
> 
> Description: 
>  network-manager-gnome - network management framework (GNOME frontend)
> Changes: 
>  network-manager-applet (0.6.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
>  .
>    * Initial release after the package split.
>    * Imported files from previous network-manager source package
>      - debian/nm-applet.sgml
>      - debian/network-manager-applet.manpages
>      - debian/network-manager-gnome.README.Debian
>      - debian/patches/01-dbus_access_nm_applet.patch
>      - debian/patches/10-po_fr.patch
>      - debian/patches/11-po_de.patch
>    * debian/patches/12-po_jp.patch
>      - Fixes for the Japanese translation. (Closes: #430672)
>        Patch by Kobayashi Noritada 
>    * debian/patches/20-stable_branch_updates_r98.patch
>      - Pull updates from the stable branch up until revision 98.
>      - Contains various bug fixes and translation updates.
>    * Add debian/watch to track new upstream releases.
> 
>> This suggests that one reasonable fix would be to release a new
>> network-manager-gnome 0.6.4-9 (or so) which claims to work with
>> network-manager (>= 0.6.4-8) and a new network-manager &co which
>> doesn't make false claims about providing / conflicting with that.
> 
> The reasonable fix is to wait for the package to get out of NEW.
> 
>> It seems fairly precipitate to have released this package into Sid
>> without having a corresponding network-manager-gnome package to go
>> with it, since the package is effectively useless without the UI
>> required to prompt me for my keyring password.
> 
> AFAICT, gnome isn't the only UI (network-manager-kde…). By reading the
> changelog, you may also notice that several bugs are fixed by this
> upload, that might explains why the maintainer didn't wait for the other
> package to go out of NEW.
> 

The simple reason is, that the new network-manager-applet source package
0.6.5 (which builds the network-manager-gnome binary package) requires
network-manager >= 0.6.5 for compilation. That's why I had to upload
network-manager 0.6.5 first.
I know this is a bit unfortunate and I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

Cheers,
Michael


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