[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#919619: Bug#919619: network-manager: breaking configuration when updating

[Michael Biebl]

On 10.01.22 17:36, Diederik de Haas wrote:
> On 05 Feb 2021 12:37:04 +0100 Michele Cane <michele.cane at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Package: network-manager
>>
>> Reading on the previous echanges tehre was a mention of NM not developing/
>> maintaining iwd backend but I see that they have recent commits (Nov 2020)
>>
>> It would be great if we could reconsider this discussion, especially if the
>> iwd backend in NM is being debeloped.
> 
> I'm using NM with iwd too and I'd like to give a +1 to this feature request.
> 
> The previous mail is now almost a year old and it's almost 3 years since the
> bug has been filed. Since then a lot has changed.
> 
> - 22 commits in 2021 in src/core/devices/wifi/nm-device-iwd.c in the upstream
> repo, so it doesn't look abandoned to me
> - popularity has risen to 408/347 and doesn't include me (and likely others
> who haven't enabled/installed popularity-contest)
> - several new releases of iwd
> - Bullseye has been released and there's still plenty of time to fix possible
> issues *if* they occur, before Bookworm gets released, so now is an ideal time
> to introduce this feature

You can use iwd with NM.
The package is still built with support for it
https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/network-manager/-/blob/debian/master/debian/rules#L43

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