[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#580309: Bug#580309: network-manager: Should not depend on ifupdown

[Michael Biebl]

forwarded 580309 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625427
thanks

On 03.08.2010 19:06, Josh Triplett wrote:
> reopen 580309
> thanks
> 
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 02:18:37AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> On 05.05.2010 08:09, Josh Triplett wrote:
>>> Package: network-manager
>>> Version: 0.8-1
>>> Severity: wishlist
>>>
>>> NetworkManager has support for integrating with ifupdown to cooperate
>>> with the system-wide configuration the user already has.  However, it
>>> seems like NetworkManager should work fine with ifupdown not installed
>>> at all, since it then has no configuration to cooperate with.  If the
>>> sysadmin wants ifupdown and its configuration, they'll already have it
>>> installed; NetworkManager shouldn't need to depend on it.
>>>
>>> So, could NetworkManager remove its ifupdown Depends, or change it to an
>>> Enhances or similar?
>>
>> The dependency on ifupdown is correct, as ifup is used to setup the loopback
>> interface
>> (see backends/NetworkManagerDebian.c:void nm_system_enable_loopback (void))
> 
> Thanks for that information; I didn't know that.
> 
> I filed an upstream bug report
> (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625427) requesting that this
> function handle the case where ifup doesn't exist, and Dan Williams
> fixed it in upstream git.  Now, if ifup doesn't exist, NetworkManager
> will bring up the loopback interface itself.
> 
> Once that change makes its way into the Debian packaged version, would
> you consider dropping the Depends on ifupdown in favor of a Suggests or
> Enhances?

Sure, as soon as there is a safe fallback, demoting to Suggests or dropping the
ifupdown dependency altogether is fine (I'll probably go for the latter).

I just checked the Git repo and the change is simple enough, so I'm going to
cherry pick this patch for the next upload.

Thanks for forwarding this issue upstream.

Cheers,
Michael

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