Bug#688772: Call for votes for resolving #688772 [gnome Depends network-manager-gnome]
Assuming I've done everything properly:
BACF don
CBFA rra
BCFA vorlon
ABCF ian
CBAF bdale
BCAF aba
BACF cjwatson
option A:F 5:2; does not beat majority requirements.
option B:F 7:0; beats majority requirements
option C:F 7:0; beats majority requirements
B:C 5:2
B:F 7:0
C:F 7:0
Option B is the winner.
Therefore the CTTE resolves:
=== START ===
1. The TC notes the decision of the meta-gnome maintainers to
implement the TC decision in #681834 by:
(a) softening the dependency in the gnome-core metapackage
from Depends to Recommends, as required
(b) adding a new dependency in the gnome metapackage,
as a Depends. (In squeeze, this is where the dependency
was, but it was a Recommends.)
2. Our intent, as stated in the rationale section of our previous
decision (#681834, paras 3 and 5), is that squeeze users who have
gnome installed but not network-manager do not find that
network-manager becomes installed when they upgrade to wheezy.
3. A Recommends from gnome to network-manager-gnome would serve no
purpose in wheezy as gnome Depends on gnome-core which already
Recommends network-manager-gnome.
Therefore
4. We overrule the decision of the meta-gnome maintainers to add a
dependency from gnome to network-manager-gnome; this dependency
should be removed. If in the opinion of the NM maintainer (and
before the release of wheezy the Chair of the Technical Committee
or an individual delegated by the Chair in consultation with the
Release Team) the concerns raised in §4 of the CTTE decision
#681834 have been addressed through technical means (e.g. by
preventing the starting of NM as discussed in #688772), the
meta-gnome maintainers may freely adjust the dependencies as
usual.
Specifically, valid bugs where existing valid network
configurations are broken by the automatic, required installation
on system upgrade of packages not previously installed which
perform network configuration on should have severity serious.
5. We request that the Release Team unblock update(s) to meta-gnome so
that our decisions may be implemented in wheezy.
6. We request that a release note is created explaining that gnome
users who do not currently have NM installed consider installing
it.
=== STOP ===
By the time you read this, I should have updated the decision file in
the git repository. Please feel free to make changes to that before I
send out the announcement today or tomorrow.
I will also file a new bug against the gnome meta package with the
resolution when I publish the announcement.
Don Armstrong
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