[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1056638: Bug#1056638: network-manager: Breaks:isc-dhcp-client results in deinstallation of n-m

[Michael Biebl]

Feel free to talk to Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.net>
to find another solution for 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1056313

Once you have a solution, I'm happy to implement it.



Am 24.11.23 um 09:39 schrieb IOhannes m zmoelnig:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 1.44.2-3
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> The recent introduction of a versioned breaks against isc-dhcp-client resulted
> in a de-installation of network-manager, leading in turn to a broken network.
> 
> at that time, the only available (physical) network was a WiFi, and the only
> tool for configuring WiFi networks on the system used to be network-manager,
> which got me into a catch22 situtation, where it was impossible to download the
> packages required to get networking again.
> 
> i understand that your stance is, that a new version of isc-dhcp-client should
> be uploaded ASAP, and the problem will fix itself:
>> I will add a versioned Breaks isc-dhcp-client (<< 4.4.3-P1-5) to
>> network-manager, assuming the next version fixing this issue will be
>> 4.4.3-P1-5.
> 
> this looks an awful lot like a generic assumption/wish to the isc-dhcp-client
> maintainers.
> 
> i would wish for a very tight coordination between the maintainers of n-m (aka:
> you) and those of isc-dhcp-client, *before* introducing such a potentially
> devastating change.
> 
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