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Bug#834535: plasma-nm: isn't able to coexist with wicd-kde



¡Hola Cristian!

El 2016-08-16 a las 21:32 +0200, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn escribió:
Package: plasma-nm Version: 0.9.3.4-2 Severity: important

Debian jessie.  Simplified bug report.

plasma-nm depends on network-manager, but does not conflict with wicd-kde, or the other way around. So, one ends up with the two packages competing/raceing with eachother. Very shaky wireless authentication process.

I think this needs to be addressed at the network-manager/wicd level, this issue is not specific to the plasma desktop, and the dependencies allow the removal of plasma-nm.

Purging both plasma-nm and network-manager and keeping wicd-kde (0.3.1-1) cleans up the mess. I do prefer using wicd over nm.

You might want to consider helping with the wicd-kde package, as it's currently not being taking care of (neither in Debian nor in KDE). Currently, it has a simple rc bug that has removed it from stretch, and if it's not fixed it won't be part of the next Debian release. At the same time, wicd-kde is still kde4 based which we would really prefer to deprecate, and this needs someone working with in kde to migrate it to qt5/kde frameworks 5.

Happy hacking,
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