[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#864339: network-manager: README.Debian contains references to older version, various other minor issues.

Tim Small tim at seoss.co.uk
Wed Jun 7 08:00:11 UTC 2017


Package: network-manager
Version: 1.6.2-3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

The README.Debian file contains outdated references to the 0.9 version,
and documentation.  Also updated to expand reference to the command
line tools, since nmtui has been expanded.  Fix other minor grammar bits
too.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64
 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-rc8-drm-tip+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.115
ii  dbus                   1.10.18-1
ii  init-system-helpers    1.48
ii  libaudit1              1:2.6.7-2
ii  libbluetooth3          5.43-2
ii  libc6                  2.24-10
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.50.3-2
ii  libgnutls30            3.5.8-5
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         230-3
ii  libjansson4            2.9-1
ii  libmm-glib0            1.6.4-1
ii  libndp0                1.6-1+b1
ii  libnewt0.52            0.52.19-1+b1
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.27-2
ii  libnm0                 1.6.2-3
ii  libpam-systemd         232-23
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0    0.105-17
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-17
ii  libreadline7           7.0-3
ii  libselinux1            2.6-3+b1
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.56.0-2
ii  libsystemd0            232-23
ii  libteamdctl0           1.26-1+b1
ii  libuuid1               2.29.2-1
ii  lsb-base               9.20161125
ii  policykit-1            0.105-17
ii  udev                   232-23
ii  wpasupplicant          2:2.4-1

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda             3.18-1
ii  dnsmasq-base     2.76-5+b1
ii  iptables         1.6.0+snapshot20161117-6
pn  iputils-arping   <none>
ii  isc-dhcp-client  4.3.5-3
ii  modemmanager     1.6.4-1
ii  ppp              2.4.7-1+4

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  libteam-utils  <none>

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--- README.Debian.orig	2017-06-06 11:10:22.195294649 +0100
+++ README.Debian	2017-06-07 08:57:04.746395076 +0100
@@ -4,16 +4,16 @@
 
 It has two components:
 
-1. a system level service which manages connections and reports network changes
-2. a graphical desktop applet which allows the user to manipulate network
-   connections. The nmcli tool provides similar functionality on the command
-   line.
+1. A system level service which manages connections and reports network changes
+2. A managment tool (cli, text or graphical desktop applet) which allows ther
+   user to monitor and manipulate network connections. The included nmcli and
+   nmtui tools provide similar functionality from the command line.
 
 
 system connections and security
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-In NetworkManager version 0.9, network connections are stored as keyfiles in
+In NetworkManager version 1.6, network connections are stored as keyfiles in
 the /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ directory.
 When creating new wireless or wired connections, they are by default
 system-owned (i.e. available to everyone) and the secrets (e.g WPA-PSK or WEP
@@ -24,10 +24,10 @@
 To avoid prompts for the root/admin password, NetworkManager ships a PolicyKit
 configuration file which grants everyone in group "netdev" or "sudo" the
 privilege to modify a system connection without prior authentication. Adding a
-user to group sudo grants him root-like privileges though. If that is not
-wanted, you can choose to add him to group netdev instead.
+user to group sudo grants them root-like privileges though. If that is not
+wanted, you can choose to add them to group netdev instead.
 If the user should not have the privilege to add and modify system connections
-don't add him to either groups.
+don't add them to either group.
 In that case, the user clients (like nm-applet) will default to creating
 user-owned connections where the secrets are stored in the user keyring.
 VPN and 3G type connections are by default also user-owned.
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/SystemSettings
 
 The keyfile specification is available at
-https://developer.gnome.org/NetworkManager/0.9/ref-settings.html
+https://developer.gnome.org/NetworkManager/1.6/ref-settings.html
 
 unmanaged devices and /etc/network/interfaces
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -49,4 +49,3 @@
 recommended to manually remove any configuration for that interface from
 /etc/network/interfaces. You need to restart NetworkManager afterwards via
 "service network-manager restart".
-


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