[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#440143: network-manager: No applet => package is unusable

[Andrew McMillan]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.5-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

I have recently upgraded to network-manager 0.6.5-1 and can no longer
access any of my wireless networks.

The package control file says "Replaces: network-manager-gnome" which
appears to be a complete falsehood!  There is no nm-applet in there at
all, which the changelog also states.

Unfortunately there is also no nm-applet anywhere else, as far as I can
see.  Even worse, I can't find any Debian source to build one from.

In the interim I have reconstructed the network-manager-gnome 0.6.4-8
package in order to tell it that it's OK to install alongside
network-manager (>= 0.6.4) and have rebuild network-manager from source
to tell it that it *does not* provide network-manager-gnome.

Surprisingly, this approach works, and I can once more connect to my
wireless networks.

This suggests that one reasonable fix would be to release a new
network-manager-gnome 0.6.4-9 (or so) which claims to work with
network-manager (>= 0.6.4-8) and a new network-manager &co which doesn't
make false claims about providing / conflicting with that.

It seems fairly precipitate to have released this package into Sid
without having a corresponding network-manager-gnome package to go with
it, since the package is effectively useless without the UI required to
prompt me for my keyring password.

Regards,
					Andrew McMillan


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.1-hippy (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=POSIX (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.104        add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                        1.1.1-3      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcdbd                      3.0-1        D-Bus interface to the ISC DHCP cl
ii  hal                         0.5.9.1-4    Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown                    0.6.8        high level tools to configure netw
ii  iproute                     20070313-1   Professional tools to control the 
ii  iputils-arping              3:20070202-2 Tool to send ICMP echo requests to
ii  libc6                       2.6.1-1+v6   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.1.1-3      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.74-1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                 1.2.4-2      LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.14.0-2     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpg-error0               1.4-2        library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                     0.5.9.1-4    Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libiw29                     29~pre22-1   Wireless tools - library
ii  libnl1-pre6                 1.0~pre6-5   Library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-util0                 0.6.5-1      network management framework (shar
ii  lsb-base                    3.1-24       Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  wpasupplicant               0.6.0-3      Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  network-manager-gnome     0.6.4-8+b1awm1 network management framework (GNOM

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