Re: Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

]] Steve Langasek 

>  - Installing the gnome or the NM package must not cause the network to
>    break on upgrade, even temporarily, under any circumstances.

Is this a requirement for other network-providing packages as well?  If
so, openvpn for instance is RC-buggy because upgrading it will restart
any configured VPNs.  We don't require other packages to continue to
work uninterrupted during upgrades, and while I can agree NM is in a bit
of special situation by virtue of controlling the network, I am not sure
being as strict as you are here is reasonable.

>  - Installing the gnome or the NM package must not cause any network
>    configuration the user has specified to be lost.

This is reasonable, and makes ifupdown RC-buggy, since rm-ing
/etc/network/interfaces and reinstalling the package will change the
network configuration (the file is recreated).  I've just filed a bug
about this.

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