[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#919619: Bug#919619: network-manager: should support iwd as wpasupplicant alternative

[Michael Biebl]

Am 07.11.19 um 00:21 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
> Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2019-02-03 23:44:24)
>> Quoting Andreas Henriksson (2019-02-03 23:12:37)
>>> Control: severity -1 wishlist
>>
>> Please reconsider the severity, because...
>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 10:09:21PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>>> network-manager is compiled with support for iwd, but the package 
>>>> declares an absolute dependency on wpasupplicant.
>>
>> Above is the issue reported: I.e. the _possibility_ for using iwd as 
>> alternative.
> 
> Please relax to only _recommend_ wpasupplicant, to allow (even if not 
> recommend) use with IWD.

Once we have an *automatic* fallback to iwd I'm happy to add iwd as
alternative dependency.
Until then, I prefer to keep wpasupplicant as a hard depends.
Unfortunately we have way too many users which have Recommends disabled
and I'm not intending to break those setups and get bug reports.

Michael


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