[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#513151: Bug#513151: network-manager should depend on dnsmasq-base

[Michael Biebl]

severity 513151 important
thanks

Eckhart Wörner wrote:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.7.0-1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 3.5
> 
> 
> Without dnsmasq-base installed, nm-applet fails silently in creating an ad-hoc network.
> NetworkManager outputs the following messages:
> ....
> <WARN>  start_sharing(): (eth1/eth1): failed to start dnsmasq: Could not find dnsmasq binary.
> ....
> <WARN>  nm_device_activate_stage5_ip_config_commit(): Activation (eth1) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) start sharing failed.
> ....
> 
> With dnsmasqbase installed, everything seems to work fine.
> Note that the missing dependency on dnsmasq-base is only a guess.

Hi Eckhart,

you are right, for creating ad-hoc networks you need dnsmasq-base installed.

I'm a bit uncertain though to make dnsmasq-base a hard dependency, as most users
will probably never create an ad-hoc network, thus if it would be better to make
dnsmasq-base a Recommends, to leave the choice to the user (just as policykit
and avahi-autoipd are currently suggests and recommends).

What would you prefer?

FWIW, I downgraded to important, as I think that the package works just fine for
the vast majority of users without problems).

Cheers,
Michael


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