[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#440143: network-manager: No GNOME applet (yet)

[Cyril Brulebois]

Andrew McMillan <debian at mcmillan.net.nz> (30/08/2007):
> 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.

According to the changelog, not accurate:
| + Add Conflicts/Replaces: network-manager-gnome (<< 0.6.5-1) as [...]

Not doing so would be a grave bug (file conflict between packages).

> 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.

http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html

Description: 
 network-manager-gnome - network management framework (GNOME frontend)
Changes: 
 network-manager-applet (0.6.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Initial release after the package split.
   * Imported files from previous network-manager source package
     - debian/nm-applet.sgml
     - debian/network-manager-applet.manpages
     - debian/network-manager-gnome.README.Debian
     - debian/patches/01-dbus_access_nm_applet.patch
     - debian/patches/10-po_fr.patch
     - debian/patches/11-po_de.patch
   * debian/patches/12-po_jp.patch
     - Fixes for the Japanese translation. (Closes: #430672)
       Patch by Kobayashi Noritada 
   * debian/patches/20-stable_branch_updates_r98.patch
     - Pull updates from the stable branch up until revision 98.
     - Contains various bug fixes and translation updates.
   * Add debian/watch to track new upstream releases.

> 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.

The reasonable fix is to wait for the package to get out of NEW.

> 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.

AFAICT, gnome isn't the only UI (network-manager-kde…). By reading the
changelog, you may also notice that several bugs are fixed by this
upload, that might explains why the maintainer didn't wait for the other
package to go out of NEW.

Cheers,

-- 
Cyril Brulebois
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