[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#553320: Bug#553320: NetworkManager 0.8 for Squeeze?

[Michael Biebl]

W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> Please let us have 0.8 in Squeeze.
> Pros: HAL dependency removed; better support for Bluetooth,
>   mobile devices, and IPv6 (Squeeze release goal, right?);
>   is/will be soon in Fedora and Ubuntu.
> Cons: New.

I know the advantags of NM 0.8 and already started work on packaging it.
Yet it needs modemmanager, for handling (UMTS/GSM) modems.
There is an ITP for that [1], but no package yet.
Without modemmanager being available I won't upload NM to unstable, as this
would be a major regression.
I will upload 0.8 rc to experimental soonish though.

So, the best way you can help getting NM 0.8 into unstable is to help getting
modemmanager into unstable.
I won't package or help package modemmanager, as I already have enough packages
to look after and no hardware, so I could reasonable test the functionality of
modemmanager. So help in that regard is most welcome

Cheers,
Michael


[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=546587
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