[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#817773: network-manager: crash in `nmcli device wifi` with multiple wifi devices

[Jason Abele]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.10.0-7
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

Using 'nmcli d wifi' or its subcommands on a system with more than one
wifi interface leads nmcli to exit by crashing.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

There was an upstream network-manager issue and commit, backported to
the 0.9.10.2 (I think) upstream release.  I added this as a patch and
rebuilt the 0.9.10.0-7 debian package to confirm that it resolves the
issue for me.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734466

   * What was the outcome of this action?

nmcli no longer crashes with multiple wifi devices

I am not sure if there is any interest to release a bug fix version of
network-manager for jessie in the 0.9.10.x series, since this is fixed
in the newer network-manger release in testing/unstable.

I have taken a quick stab at adding the upstream fix to debian/patches
and the built .deb works for me.

https://github.com/jasonabele/network-manager/commit/97c9a7101bd490ec77906e6fdbda16524dbc830f

Cheers,
Jason
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