Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome

[Ian Jackson]

Don Armstrong writes ("Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome"):
> 1) we decide that failures of NM to detect basic ifupdown
> configurations and avoid overriding them are bugs, possibly of RC
> severity
> 
> 2) given the gnome maintainer's desire to have NM installed by default
> from the gnome metapackage
> 
> allowing gnome to Depends: nm | wicd; would deal with the most
> concerning form of breakage for me.
> 
> Does this work for anyone else?

Why do you think the gnome metapackage depending on, rather than
recommending, wicd, is a good idea ?  I don't really see the logical
connection between any of the goals (whether the TC's or the GNOME
maintainers') and your proposal.

For example, consider the position of someone who has deliberately
removed n-m in squeeze, and is using ifupdown or running ifconfig by
hand or whatever, and upgrades to wheezy.  This still gives them n-m
back.  That's not respecting their previous choice to remove it.

Ian.