[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#503682: network-manager-gnome: partial upgrade do not work

[Anand Kumria]

Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 0.6.6-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Hi,

I have upgrade to network manager in experimental, as part of that the various libnm libraries
have been upgraded to version 0.7.x

However neither network-manager, nor network-manager-gnome (part of network-manager-applet) were upgraded.

This meant that the applet did not start. Manually starting it revealed:

a2 at eve:~$ which nm-applet
/usr/bin/nm-applet
a2 at eve:~$ nm-applet 
nm-applet: symbol lookup error: nm-applet: undefined symbol: dbus_method_dispatcher_new

This is similar to launchpad bug #193964; I think the solution is to have the various libnm components conflict
with network-manager-* < 0.7 so that partial upgrades are not possible.

Without the conflict in place, it is not possilbe to start network-manager and thus connect to the Internet (hence the severity).

Thanks,
Anand

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome depends on:
ii  libc6                    2.8+20080809-1  GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3              1.2.1-4         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2         0.76-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4              2.22.0-1        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0              1:2.6.2-1       library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.18.2-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0        2.22.3-2        GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0              2.22.0-1        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0             2.22.1-1        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.12.11-4       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnm-util0              0.7.0~svn4191-1 network management framework (shar
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1-g 0.4.4-3         sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.21.6-1        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libx11-6                 2:1.1.5-2       X11 client-side library
ii  network-manager          0.6.6-2         network management framework daemo

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring [libpam- 2.22.3-2   PAM module to unlock the GNOME key
pn  network-manager-openvpn-gnome <none>     (no description available)
pn  network-manager-vpnc-gnome    <none>     (no description available)
ii  notification-daemon           0.3.7-1+b1 a daemon that displays passive pop

network-manager-gnome suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information