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

[Don Armstrong]

On Sat, 19 Oct 2013, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Don Armstrong wrote:
> > [Axel: can you test to make sure that the failure mode of the
> > gnome control center is reasonable without NM installed?]
> 
> 1:3.8.3-3 with network-manager-gnome downgraded to Recommends works
> fine for me on kfreebsd-i386. Nothing unexpected so far. (Except that
> it didn't build fine twice in a row.) But then again of course there's
> no network-manager-dev build-dependency on that architecture.
> 
> So I tried on i386, too: Works perfectly fine, too. If I click on
> Network, I get a pop up saying "The system network services are not
> compatible with this version" which is correct as I'm using wicd.

This failure mode seems reasonable to me; I suspect a patch to the
strings suggesting that people install network-manager-gnome in that pop
up message would also be useful, but that's getting into bike-shedding
territory. [And I fully understand if the gnome maintainers are not
interested in making such a patch.]

So I believe a Breaks: coupled with an optional Recommends:
network-manager-gnome would be sufficient here.

Sjoerd: does that seem reasonable?

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