[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#896818: Bug#896818: libnma over GI not working

[Eli Schwartz]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 23:07:25 +0200 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the bug report.
> Seems we don't have any package in stretch yet, which uses
> gir1.2-nma-1.0, which is probably why this issue has went unnoticed.
> 
> But that also means, it's probably not that important to fix this via a
> stable upload. Or put this differently: Why do you want to have this
> fixed in stretch, is there any software you use in stretch that requires
> gir1.2-nma-1.0?
One possibly good reason to get this fixed is because, Cinnamon will not
merge this PR until you do: https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/pull/7486

And this PR makes Cinnamon work better and support new features, like
https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/pull/7118

Since the current state of things is that the bindings are badly broken,
and this does nothing other than to make things work the way they were
always meant to, I think it is reasonable to backport this pretty minor fix.


End result: peoples' custom scripts no longer crash and burn.

Also, downstream developers of software that is in fact in stretch, do
not need to burden themselves by refusing to improve their software on
the grounds that it will crash and burn on stretch. This affects both
people who build their own packages for testing, and people who develop
a respin of stretch, which is supposed to showcase their software.

Like Linux Mint Debian Edition, which is based on stretch, but includes
the latest Cinnamon packages.

Also, if downstream developers are afraid to use non-deprecated
libraries like libnma because it will break on Debian, it means other
distros which use more recent networkmanager versions cannot benefit
from fixes and improvements, which in its own small way drags down the
entire Linux ecosystem. As an Arch Linux user (and maintainer of the
Cinnamon desktop on Arch) I'd like to see Cinnamon be improved...

It's such a simple fix...

Please note also that the commit has been backported to
network-manager-applet's *maintenance* 1.4 branch, and is available in
1.4.8 (released 3 weeks ago on 01 Jun 2018).

Upstream-sanctioned maintenance releases which fix bugs resulting in
completely broken package components, are good candidates for inclusion. :)

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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