Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome

[Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>]

On Fri, 05 Oct 2012, Don Armstrong wrote:
> From what I understand, nm and wicd are not capable of
> co-existing.[1] Furthermore, nm does not always catch that other
> systems (such as ifupdown) are configuring the interfaces, and may
> lead to broken behavior on upgrade (such as #656584 and #688355,
> just glancing at it).

Assuming that

1) we decide that failures of NM to detect basic ifupdown
configurations and avoid overriding them are bugs, possibly of RC
severity

2) given the gnome maintainer's desire to have NM installed by default
from the gnome metapackage

allowing gnome to Depends: nm | wicd; would deal with the most
concerning form of breakage for me.

Does this work for anyone else?


Don Armstrong

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