[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#513151: network-manager should depend on dnsmasq-base

[Eckhart Wörner]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.7.0-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 3.5


Without dnsmasq-base installed, nm-applet fails silently in creating an ad-hoc network.
NetworkManager outputs the following messages:
....
<WARN>  start_sharing(): (eth1/eth1): failed to start dnsmasq: Could not find dnsmasq binary.
....
<WARN>  nm_device_activate_stage5_ip_config_commit(): Activation (eth1) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) start sharing failed.
....

With dnsmasqbase installed, everything seems to work fine.
Note that the missing dependency on dnsmasq-base is only a guess.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.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                   1.2.1-5           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal                    0.5.11-8          Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown               0.6.8+nmu1        high level tools to configure netw
ii  libc6                  2.7-18            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.1-5           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.76-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11            1.4.1-1           LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.6-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26            2.4.2-4           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0          1.4-2             library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                0.5.11-8          Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libnl1                 1.1-2             library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib0            0.7.0-1           network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1            0.7.0-1           network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-dbus2        0.9-2             library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit2             0.9-2             library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  libtasn1-3             1.4-1             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          0.6.4-3           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  network-manager-kde   1:0.7~~svn908338-1 KDE systray applet for controlling
ii  policykit             0.9-2              framework for managing administrat
ii  ppp                   2.4.4rel-10.1      Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  avahi-autoipd                 0.6.22-3   Avahi IPv4LL network address confi

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