Bug#460691: network-admin incompatible with network-manager

[Robert Millan]

Package: gnome-system-tools
Version: 2.14.0-3
Severity: important

This report is based on my experience as desktop user in etch.  It might
no longer apply, although I doubt anything has changed in this area.

AFAICT, the purpose of network-admin is fundamentally incompatible with
network-manager.  network-admin is used by the user to manually configure
static networks, whereas network-manager is delegated by the user the
overall responsability of network setup.

When both are installed and running, user gets the impression that she can
configure a static network using network-admin, only to realize that her
network magically disappears after a few minutes without any obvious
explanation.

Please, can you add a Conflicts: network-manager to prevent these situations?

Preferably after splitting network-admin in a separate binary package, so
that this doesn't make it impossible to use the rest of gnome-system-tools
in combination with network-manager.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-amd64
Locale: LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)