[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#970457: network-manager: Please downgrade depends on wpasupplicant to recommends and add iwd

[hlehmbruch at gmx.net]

Package: network-manager
Version: 1.26.2-1
Severity: wishlist

Hi,
sorry I tried to use reportbug for it.
Doesn't work, second try.

cat /tmp/reportbug-network-manager-20200916-120555-kmiu2tdq

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From: Hendrik Lehmbruch <hlehmbruch at gmx.net>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
Subject: network-manager: Please downgrade depends on wpasupplicant to
 recommends and add iwd Reply-To: Hendrik Lehmbruch <hlehmbruch at gmx.net>
Message-ID: <160024967932.120555.18003832375796137392.reportbug at hhl>
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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 11:47:59 +0200

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where
appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?
installing iwd and tried to remove wpasupplicant

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
apt install iwd; apt purgen wpasupplicant

   * What was the outcome of this action?
it will remove networ-manager too

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
use network-manager as gui/interface for iwd (iwdctl), without having
     wpasupplicant installed!

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500,
'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.8.9-towo.1-siduction-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads;
PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_CRAP, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=de Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser          3.118
ii  dbus             1.12.20-1
ii  libaudit1        1:2.8.5-3+b1
ii  libbluetooth3    5.54-1
ii  libc6            2.31-3
ii  libcurl3-gnutls  7.72.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0     2.66.0-2
ii  libgnutls30      3.6.15-3
ii  libjansson4      2.13.1-1
ii  libmm-glib0      1.14.2-0.1
ii  libndp0          1.6-1+b1
ii  libnewt0.52      0.52.21-4+b1
ii  libnm0           1.26.2-1
ii  libpam-systemd   246.5-1
ii  libpsl5          0.21.0-1.1
ii  libreadline8     8.0-4
ii  libselinux1      3.1-2
ii  libsystemd0      246.5-1
ii  libteamdctl0     1.30-1
ii  libudev1         246.5-1
ii  libuuid1         2.36-3
ii  policykit-1      0.105-29
ii  udev             246.5-1
pn  wpasupplicant    <none>

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda                         4.14+git20191112.9856751-1
ii  dnsmasq-base [dnsmasq-base]  2.82-1
ii  iptables                     1.8.5-3
ii  modemmanager                 1.14.2-0.1
ii  ppp                          2.4.7-2+4.1+deb10u1+b1

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  isc-dhcp-client  4.4.1-2.1+b2
pn  libteam-utils    <none>

Hi,

is it possible to downgrade wpasupplicant to recommends and add iwd as
recommends too? So that $user can choose which one to use, iwd or
wpasupplicant ,as long as there is no other gui for iwd in debian.
Maybe, well this is an additional wish on that way, you can pack iwgtk
(https://github.com/J-Lentz/iwgtk) too, it is in an early state but it
works.

Thank you for the great work you done and still doing

Hendrik Lehmbruch