[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#909356: iwd 0.8 not compatible with NM < 1.14

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 11:22:07AM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> Package: iwd
> Version: 0.8-1
> Severity: serious
> 
> Filing this bug report to block iwd 0.8 from migrating to testing (yet).
> 
> The NetworkManager support for iwd has been updated in the 1.14 release
> to be compatible with the changes that has been made in iwd 0.8.
> Unfortunately NM 1.14 is stuck in experimental because it has testsuite
> failures on 2 release architectures. NM maintainer is looking for help
> to sort that out before uploading NM 1.14 to unstable.

I got build success on armel and FTBFS on amd64, smells like flaky test.

> Given the above circumstances I think it's best if we delay iwd 0.8
> from migrating to testing and keep the 0.7 version there until we
> see NM 1.14 in unstable/testing. (Ofcourse iwd can be used separately
> but using it with NM is still probably quite likely thus having those
> work together is probably a good idea for testing version.)
> 
> This bug report should be closed once we have network-manager 1.14 in
> testing/buster.

Please add a
  Breaks: network-manager (<< 1.14.0-1~)
to iwd when closing this bug.

> Regards,
> Andreas Henriksson

Thanks
Adrian

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