[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#507842: network-manager: fails to connect over 3G if ppp is not installed

[Will Thompson]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.7.0-1
Severity: normal

If 'ppp' is not installed (as is relatively likely, as currently
network-manager does not depend on it in any way and soon will merely Recommend
it) 3G connections immediately fail with no explanation.

This situation should be handled more gracefully.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.110             add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                   1.2.1-4           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal                    0.5.11-6          Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown               0.6.8+nmu1        high level tools to configure netw
ii  libc6                  2.7-16            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.1-4           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.76-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11            1.4.1-2           LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.18.3-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26            2.4.2-3           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0          1.4-2             library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                0.5.11-6          Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libnl1                 1.1-3             library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib0            0.7.0-1           network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util0            0.7.0-1           network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-dbus2        0.9-1             library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit2             0.9-1             library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  libtasn1-3             1.5-1             Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libuuid1               1.41.3-1          universally unique id library
ii  lsb-base               3.2-20            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  wpasupplicant          0.6.4-2           Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  network-manager-gnome         0.7.0-1    network management framework (GNOM
ii  policykit                     0.9-1      framework for managing administrat

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  avahi-autoipd                 0.6.23-2   Avahi IPv4LL network address confi

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