[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#699307: Bug#699307: network-manager-vpnc should mention network-manager-vpnc-gnome

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Wed Jan 30 02:15:32 UTC 2013


On 30.01.2013 02:59, Alexander Tait Brotman wrote:
> Package: network-manager-vpnc
> Version: 0.9.4.0-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> I was trying to setup a Cisco VPN to use with my workplace, and I found that clicking to add a VPN
> through the GUI resulted in nothing being displayed.  There was no error message or additional information.
> Upon installing network-manager-vpnc-gnome, clicking the Add button enabled the set of windows to add the
> VPN setup to my network-manager options.  I didn't see any mention of this package in the documentation 
> for the network-manager-vpnc package.  I also did not see it in the package description.  Could there be
> some mention in the docs, or perhaps even suggest to the user to install the package when that Add button
> doesn't find the required package to be installed.

network-manager-gnome suggets the various network-manager-$(VPN)-gnome
components.
The -gnome VPN bits are not required if you e.g. use the KDE gui client,
so adding those to the network-manager-vpnc package description seems wrong.

Michael


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