[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1026388: network-manager: Please use upstream default paths for NM libexec binaries in /usr/libexec

[Neal Gompa]

Package: network-manager
Version: 1.40.6-1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

With the upcoming freeze of Debian Bookworm, I would like to request
that Debian's NetworkManager builds install their libexec binaries
in the upstream preferred location in /usr/libexec.

This aligns with what other distributions do today (notably Fedora
and openSUSE) and is permitted in Debian since policy standard 4.1.5.0
(released in 2018) because that is when FHS 3.0 (released in 2015) was
adopted by Debian.

I would prefer to see this fixed with Debian Bookworm to minimize the
continuing pain this deviation causes, especially for upstream projects
that rely on these binaries to activate parts of NetworkManager functionality.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.0.11-300.fc37.x86_64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: unable to detect

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                         3.129
ii  dbus [default-dbus-system-bus]  1.14.4-1
ii  libaudit1                       1:3.0.7-1.1+b2
ii  libbluetooth3                   5.66-1
ii  libc6                           2.36-6
ii  libcurl3-gnutls                 7.86.0-2
ii  libglib2.0-0                    2.74.2-1
ii  libgnutls30                     3.7.8-4
ii  libjansson4                     2.14-2
ii  libmm-glib0                     1.20.0-1
ii  libndp0                         1.8-1
ii  libnewt0.52                     0.52.23-1
ii  libnm0                          1.40.6-1
ii  libpsl5                         0.21.0-1.2
ii  libreadline8                    8.2-1.2
ii  libselinux1                     3.4-1+b3
ii  libsystemd0                     252.2-2
ii  libteamdctl0                    1.31-1
ii  libudev1                        252.2-2
ii  polkitd                         122-1
ii  udev                            252.2-2

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmasq-base [dnsmasq-base]  2.88-1
ii  libpam-systemd               252.2-2
ii  modemmanager                 1.20.0-1
ii  ppp                          2.4.9-1+1.1+b1
ii  wireless-regdb               2022.06.06-1
ii  wpasupplicant                2:2.10-9+b2

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

Versions of packages network-manager is related to:
pn  isc-dhcp-client  <none>

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