Bug#726395: Bug#681834: Bug#726395: gnome-control-center: Please downgrade dependency on network-manager-gnome to Recommends (violates tech-ctte decision otherwise)

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 16:09 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2013, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Does anyone on the TC disagree ?
> 
> I think we should first hear from Sjoerd; it's likely that Sjoerd was
> unaware that this change conflicted with the CTTE's decision.[1]

Likely, although i don't agree with the CTTE decision I definitely
wasn't trying to undermine it :).

> http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-gnome/desktop/unstable/gnome-control-center/debian/control.in?r1=37425&r2=37515
> 
> looks to be the change, and the changelog indicates that it was done to
> enable the network control panel. Assuming the rest of the gnome control
> center will work without NM, and only the network control panel would
> fail, then this Depends: isn't strictly necessary, though it may be the
> case that a Recommends: is warranted.

This needs to be tested, my gut feeling would be that we really want a
Recommends to prevent weird & unexpected failure modes in the control
center, but the Depends can probably downgraded to comply with the CTTE
decision.

-- 
Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd at luon.net>