[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1086947: nm-connection-editor: mobile-broadband-provider-info not installed anymore

[Laurent Bigonville]

Package: nm-connection-editor
Version: 1.36.0-3
Severity: normal

Hello,

Like discussed in IRC, mobile-broadband-provider-info is not installed
anymore but it seems that nm-connection-editor needs it.

Searching in the source code of the archive[1], it seems that the files
provided by this package are used at several places, including by
NetworkManager itself.

I see several solution here:

1. make NM depends directly against mobile-broadband-provider-info
2. make libnma0 depend against mobile-broadband-provider-info (with or
   without NM recommending or suggesting it)
4. Make nm-connection-editor depends against mobile-broadband-provider-info again
3. Let the desktop meta-packages depend on it

My preference goes to 1 or 2 as this will cover most of the packages

Kind regards,
Laurent Bigonville


[1]https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=mobile-broadband-provider-info&literal=1&perpkg=1


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.11.5-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_BE:fr
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages nm-connection-editor depends on:
ii  dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus]  1.14.10-6
ii  gnome-shell [polkit-1-auth-agent]             47.1-2
ii  libc6                                         2.40-3
ii  libglib2.0-0t64                               2.82.2-2
ii  libgtk-3-0t64                                 3.24.43-4
ii  libjansson4                                   2.14-2+b3
ii  libnm0                                        1.50.0-1
ii  libnma0                                       1.10.6-5
ii  libselinux1                                   3.7-3
ii  network-manager                               1.50.0-1

nm-connection-editor recommends no packages.

nm-connection-editor suggests no packages.

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