[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#642136: discussed upstream

[Daniel Pocock]

Here is an upstream discussion thread mentioning the issue:

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2011-March/msg00098.html


Apparently it was deliberately changed (not just a regression) after a
request from Ubuntu: but searching the Ubunutu forums reveals Ubuntu
users are also confused and frustrated with the situation

It is not clear whether upstream provides a compatibility option to make
things work consistently for people upgrading.

Looking in upstream git, it appears that it was not just a tweak, but a
rewrite of the system/user settings related code:

commit 443c95a6b9c8709f5d9038421df1856f190eeb24
Author: Daniel Gnoutcheff <daniel at gnoutcheff.name>
Date:   Tue Jul 13 18:09:56 2010 -0400

    nm-manager: start removing user settings services

    It turns out that user settings services are strange and complicated
    beasts. We will remove support for them, and we will later implement
    security mechanisms on the system settings service that will do what
    user settings services were intended to do.

    This commit is a bulk removal of nm-manager's internal support code for
    user settings services. The external API is largely unchanged, but
    errors are returned if anyone ties to do something with user settings.

    Work remaining includes some possible flattening of nm-manager's
    internal code, along with code removal and API changes in other modules.