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

[Josh Triplett]

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?

- Josh Triplett

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.112      add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                          1.2.24-1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcp3-client                  3.1.3-2    DHCP client
ii  ifupdown                      0.6.10     high level tools to configure netw
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-7   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.24-1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.86-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                   1.4.5-2    LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.24.1-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26                   2.8.6-1    the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                153-2      GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libnl1                        1.1-5      library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib2                   0.8-1      network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1                   0.8-1      network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0         0.96-2     PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libuuid1                      2.16.2-0   Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23.1   Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                          153-2      /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  wpasupplicant                 0.6.10-2   client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmasq-base                  2.52-1     A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii  iptables                      1.4.6-2    administration tools for packet fi
pn  modemmanager                  <none>     (no description available)
ii  network-manager-gnome         0.8-1      network management framework (GNOM
ii  policykit-1                   0.96-2     framework for managing administrat
pn  ppp                           <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd                 <none>     (no description available)

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