[Pkg-lxde-maintainers] Bug#1071383: gnome-core should recommend network-manager instead of network-manager-gnome

[Simon McVittie]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 at 21:00:41 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 14.10.24 um 17:13 schrieb Simon McVittie:
> > On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 at 16:33:40 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > > The name of the network-manager-gnome package is indeed a bit misleading
> > > nowadays.
> > > Thus for some time I contemplated splitting up the package (similar to how
> > > Fedora has done) into network-manager-applet and nm-connection-editor. The
> > > former would contain the nm-applet binary, the latter nm-connection-editor.
> > > 
> > > network-manager-gnome would become a transitional metapackage depending on
> > > both.

This split now exists in unstable.

> > Various non-GNOME desktops do pull in network-manager-gnome, and I'm not
> > sure which half of it they want: Budgie, Cinnamon, LXDE, LXQt and MATE
> > pull it in as a Recommends or Depends in their metapackages, XFCE pulls it
> > in via task-xfce-desktop, and the design-desktop and parl-desktop
> > metapackages (both of which are XFCE variants) have it as Depends. Those
> > desktops' maintainers might have an opinion on whether this split would
> > be helpful.
> 
> Good idea. Looping them in here for their feedback.

I've opened bugs for the non-GNOME packages that Depend/Recommend/Suggest
the transitional network-manager-gnome, asking for them to
move to Depends/Recommends/Suggests on network-manager-applet,
nm-connection-editor and/or network-manager.

(I didn't bother to open bugs for GNOME team packages, I just fixed them
instead :-)

    smcv