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

[Neal Gompa]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 7:28 AM Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Neal
>
> Am 19.12.22 um 13:04 schrieb 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.
>
> As the freeze is already pretty close and this potentially affects all
> the following packages, I'd like to postpone this transition to
> bookworm+1 to avoid unnecessary churn this close to the freeze and
> ending up with a half-done transition:
>
> Packages installing VPN service files:
> > $ apt-file search /usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/
> > network-manager-fortisslvpn: /usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-fortisslvpn-service.name
> > network-manager-iodine: /usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-iodine-service.name
> > network-manager-l2tp: /usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-l2tp-service.name
> > network-manager-openconnect: /usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-openconnect-service.name
> > network-manager-openvpn: /usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-openvpn-service.name
> > network-manager-pptp: /usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-pptp-service.name
> > network-manager-ssh: /usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-ssh-service.name
> > network-manager-sstp: /usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-sstp-service.name
> > network-manager-strongswan: /usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-strongswan-service.name
> > network-manager-vpnc: /usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-vpnc-service.name
>
> At least network-manager-iodine would currently be broken by this
> change, as it doesn't hard-code the full-path to the auth-dialog, see
> [1]. Then there is of course NetworkManager itself,
> network-manager-gnome (nm-connection-editor/nm-applet) which currently
> use --libexecdir=/usr/lib/NetworkManager.
>
> I think, once network-manager-iodine is fixed, NM can start using
> /usr/libexec and packages can migrate to the new path at their own pace.
> Once bookworm+1 is open for development, I would file corresponding
> wishlist bugs against the packages above.
>
> Hope that makes sense.

It does, though if all these packages are group-maintained by Utopia,
wouldn't it be possible to do the path migration for Bookworm through
NMUs?


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