Bug#834535: plasma-nm: isn't able to coexist with wicd-kde
On Wed, 17 Aug 2016, Maximiliano Curia wrote:
>
> ¡Hola Cristian!
Maximiliano,
> 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.
I should probably add that this happened as a result of the upgrade
from wheezy to jessie.
> > 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.
So, which package should this bug be transfered to?
Nonetheless, plasma-nm has a hard dependency to network-manager, which
in "worst" case scenario (no other package depends on network-manager)
will force network-manager installation without caring if wicd-kde is
installed, thus causing non-trivial problems for debian stable users.
And that's what needs to be resolved in the jessie release, IMO.
Cheers,
--
Cristian
Reply to: