[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1132248: nmtui binary no longer available

[Harald Welte]

Package: network-manager
Version: 1.56.0-5
Severity: normal

After an 'apt upgrade' on unstable, I'm suddenly unable to use nmtui anymore. Somehow it seems absent from the network-manager package, and there's no separate sub-package either.  This rendered me pretty helpless as I was unable to connect to a wireless network again until I read up the manpage of nmcli and managed to issue the related commands.  I've never used any other management UI for NetworkManager than nmtui, nor do I have any desire to do so.

Has it been deprecated? I couldn't find any related information in a quick web search.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.19.8+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  dbus [default-dbus-system-bus]  1.16.2-4
ii  libaudit1                       1:4.1.2-1+b1
ii  libbluetooth3                   5.85-4
ii  libc6                           2.42-14
ii  libcurl3t64-gnutls              8.19.0-3
ii  libglib2.0-0t64                 2.88.0-1
ii  libgnutls30t64                  3.8.12-3
ii  libmm-glib0                     1.24.2-2
ii  libndp0                         1.9-1+b2
ii  libnm0                          1.56.0-5
ii  libpsl5t64                      0.21.5-1
ii  libreadline8t64                 8.3-4
ii  libselinux1                     3.9-4+b1
ii  libsystemd0                     260.1-1
ii  libudev1                        260.1-1
ii  systemd [systemd-sysusers]      260.1-1

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmasq-base [dnsmasq-base]  2.92-3
ii  libpam-systemd               260.1-1
ii  modemmanager                 1.24.2-2
ii  network-manager-l10n         1.56.0-5
ii  polkitd                      127-2
ii  ppp                          2.5.2-1+1.2
ii  udev                         260.1-1
ii  wireless-regdb               2026.02.04-1
ii  wpasupplicant                2:2.10-25+b1

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  iptables              1.8.13-1
pn  network-manager-ovs   <none>
pn  network-manager-team  <none>
pn  network-manager-tui   <none>
ii  nftables              1.1.6-1

Versions of packages network-manager is related to:
ii  isc-dhcp-client  4.4.3-P1-8

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information