Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:27:27PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> We still have the upgrade problem with network-manager from squeeze gnome
> to wheezy gnome, but I would expect, if I had the full gnome metapackage
> installed, for quite a lot to potentially change across versions: new
> applications added or dropped, new implementations of particular common
> tasks to be blessed upstream, etc. So I'm not sure if that's as strong of
> a reason to stick with Recommends in that metapackage.
>
> To be clear, if I were the GNOME maintainers, I would use Recommends. But
> I'm not, and I'd rather that they make the call as much as possible.
> Putting aside the communication breakdowns and the heated arguments and so
> forth, if just the gnome metapackage issue in its current form had come to
> us cold, I'm trying to work through what decision I'd make.
I agree that the issue is less serious in gnome than in gnome-core.
Still, the upgrade problem seems unchanged. The users who removed
network-manager in squeeze presumably made an explicit decision to do
so, since package managers would have honoured the Recommends by
default; I'm really troubled by overruling that in this way.
I think I would have ended up voting the same way if the original
question put to us had been about gnome rather than gnome-core.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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