[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#714803: network-manager-gnome: please move gnome-bluetooth from Recommends to Suggests

[Bob Bib]

Fri, 19 July 2013, 16:17 +02:00 from Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org>:
> severity 714803 wishlist
> thanks
> 
> Am 19.07.2013 16:08, schrieb Bob Bib:
> > control: severity -1 normal
> > 
> > Thu, 18 Jul 2013 23:27:05 GMT from Michael Biebl:
> >> severity 714803 wishlist
> >> thanks
> > 
> > "wishlist" is a too low priority for this bug:
> 
> Please respect the decision of the maintainer and stop changing it.

Hi Michael,

1) you've changed this bug's severity from "important" to "wishlist" without any comment,
so it looked more like an unintentional typo somewhere.

2) just to remember, here is the current problem:
"network-manager-gnome" recommends "gnome-bluetooth",
"gnome-bluetooth" recommends "gnome-control-center" // which is unusable in non-GNOME3 DE's (LXDE at least), see bug#695817
"gnome-control-center"  recommends "gnome-session" // which finally recommends "gnome-shell"

AFAIK, "network-manager-applet" / "network-manager-gnome" is the only GTK frontend / applet for NetworkManager
packaged in Debian,
so more lightweight GTK DE's like Xfce & LXDE make use of it ("lxde" & "task-xfce-desktop" packages recommend it).
And pulling the core of GNOME3 to make a network manager work is a nonsense.
// Well, it still can be avoided on upgrade by supplying a "--no-install-recommends" option to APT:
// # apt-get --no-install-recommends dist-upgrade

Thus, I strongly suggest to move "gnome-bluetooth" to "Suggests" for "network-manager-gnome" package.
We shouldn't fear about GNOME3 users losing Bluetooth functionality,
since "gnome-core", "gnome-shell" & "gnome-user-share" packages currently have "gnome-bluetooth" in "Depends"!

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Best wishes, Bob