Re: Bug#681834: network-manager, gnome, Recommends vs Depends

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Steve Langasek writes ("Re: Bug#681834: network-manager, gnome, Recommends vs Depends"):
> Ah; so in my previous message to the bug, I had overlooked that there was an
> upgrade issue here.  I agree that changing the network handling on upgrade
> in this way is problematic, and that additional care needs to be taken so
> that users who opted out of using network-manager in squeeze can have their
> choice preserved in wheezy.

Given that wheezy has frozen we need to make the minimal change to fix
this problem.  So I think the only practical way of doing this is to
change the Depends to a Recommends, in wheezy at least.

Ian.