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

[Diederik de Haas]

On Monday, 10 January 2022 18:05:51 CET Michael Biebl wrote:
> 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.

Yes, otherwise I wouldn't be able to say "I'm using NM with iwd".

> The package is still built with support for it
> https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/network-manager/-/blob/debian/master/de
> bian/rules#L43
 
But I still can't remove wpasupplicant as it isn't defined as an alternative 
(backend) for networkmanager.
I'd like to remove wpasupplicant as I have no use for it and *either* iwd OR 
wpasupplicant should be used to make the wireless connection, but not both.

If the Depends was changed to "wpasupplicant | iwd" I would be able to get rid 
of wpasupplicant.
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