Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome

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

Don Armstrong writes ("Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome"):
> On Fri, 05 Oct 2012, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Is there anyone who is unhappy with the draft below ?
> 
> I personally don't support 8, 9 and 10.

Losing 9 and 10 is fine by me if that gets your vote.

>  [I'd do something like 8, but I believe it assumes too much bad
> faith on the part of the gnome maintainers.]

Let me try to understand this position of yours more clearly:

You agree that the things prohibited by 8 are bad.  But you think the
gnome maintainers would certainly not do them.  Therefore spelling out
that they are forbidden is unnecessary and offensive.

So are you saying that we should leave off 8.  But if the gnome
maintainers do the bad things prohibted by 8, you would be happy to
overrule them a third time ?

I don't think that's wise but I'm willing to proceed on that basis if
that's what gets us some progress on this issue now.


No-one else has objected to my draft.  I'm therefore considering
proposing a vote; I would probably call for votes on two positive
resolutions:

  A  paras 1-7 of my previous draft
     gnome metapackage must not depend on n-m (3:1 required)
     
  B  1-8 of my previous draft
     as above, also prohibit backsliding (3:1 required)



Ian.