Bug#688772: Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome
Hi,
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Raphael Hertzog writes ("Re: Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome"):
> > Nobody responded to this but while discussing with the GNOME maintainers
> > I quickly got the answer. NM is a build-time dependency of GNOME Shell
> > but Debian has patched GNOME Shell to make it optional to allow
> > it to compile on kfreebsd:
> > http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/gnome-shell/3.4.2-2/10-make-NetworkManager-optional.patch
>
> I see. That would seem to imply that it's not possible to do a
> release build of gnome-shell on a system without n-m (which I guess
> would include many buildd chroots!)
>
> I looked at the Build-Depends for gnome-shell in wheezy and it doesn't
> mention network-manager at all. That patch seems to want to
> autodetect network-manager.
In the Build-Depends I see this "libnm-glib-dev (>= 0.9) [linux-any],
libnm-util-dev (>= 0.9) [linux-any]" and "nm" stands for Network Manager
here.
Cheers,
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