[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#534402: network-manager-gnome: Package is uninstallable without removing gnome

[Noah Slater]

Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 0.6.6-4
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Steps to reproduce:

  * Run "apt-get install network-manager-gnome"

What I would expect to see:

  Package is installed and available for me to use.

What I actually see:

  The following packages will be REMOVED
    gnome gnome-desktop-environment gnome-network-admin
  The following NEW packages will be installed
    network-manager-gnome
  0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 3 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

Unfortunately, I found this out the hard way.

I upgraded my system using the standard GNOME GUI interface, and when I
restarted I had no network connection. There was no network applet to select my
wireless network from, and none available for me to add to my panel.

I was unable to install the package because I had no network connection, and
network-manager provides no other usable controls. Unfortunately, I lost three
hours teaching myself wpa_supplicant so that I could get my conection back.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (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-gnome depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.9-12      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.2.12-1    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.80-4      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                  2.26.2-1    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                  1:2.6.4-1   library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.20.1-2    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0            2.26.1-1    GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0                  2.26.0-1    The GNOME library - runtime files
ii  libgnomeui-0                 2.24.1-1    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0                  2.16.1-2    The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii  libnm-util0                  0.6.6-3     network management framework (shar
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1-gtk2. 0.4.5-1     sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libpango1.0-0                1.24.0-3+b1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libx11-6                     2:1.2.1-1   X11 client-side library
ii  network-manager              0.7.1-1     network management framework daemo

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring [libpam- 2.26.1-1   PAM module to unlock the GNOME key
pn  network-manager-openvpn-gnome <none>     (no description available)
pn  network-manager-vpnc-gnome    <none>     (no description available)
ii  notification-daemon           0.4.0-1    a daemon that displays passive pop

network-manager-gnome suggests no packages.

--
Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater