Hi release team,
please consider unblocking
network-manager 0.6.6-3
network-manager-applet 0.6.6-4
knetworkmanager 1:0.2.2-2
From the network-manager changelog:
* debian/patches/20-manual_means_always_online.patch
- manual-means-online: If there are interfaces that are not managed by
NetworkManager because they have custom configuration in
/etc/network/interfaces, we assume to be online. This is obviously not
always correct. But reporting offline state for unmanaged devices is
causing major hassles as more and more apps rely on NM and go into
offline mode otherwise, even if there is a connection (established via
ifupdown). (Closes: #491826, #502371, #509006, #509829, #511712)
The mixed operation of n-m and ifupdown is causing a lot of inconveniences
(which can be seen from the number of duplicate bug reports).
I was also asked by other DDs, which maintain apps like epiphany-webbrowser,
liferea and evolution (which rely on NM for reporting the online state) to
include this patch. Even if this bug was not marked RC, I'd really like to see
this fix make it into lenny.
The GUI frontends have been updated to correctly cope with this
manual-means-online state, so all three packages should be unblocked or none.
The complete changelogs of all three packages:
network-manager (0.6.6-3) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/network-manager.network-manager-dispatcher.init
- NetworkManagerDispatcher uses the D-Bus system bus. Update the LSB
header accordingly to avoid breakages with insserv based systems.
(Closes: #500085)
* debian/patches/20-manual_means_always_online.patch
- manual-means-online: If there are interfaces that are not managed by
NetworkManager because they have custom configuration in
/etc/network/interfaces, we assume to be online. This is obviously not
always correct. But reporting offline state for unmanaged devices is
causing major hassles as more and more apps rely on NM and go into
offline mode otherwise, even if there is a connection (established via
ifupdown). (Closes: #491826, #502371, #509006, #509829, #511712)
-- Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:29:03 +0100
knetworkmanager (1:0.2.2-2) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/patches/07-indicate_manual_config.patch
- manual-means-online: If there are interfaces that are not managed by
NetworkManager because they have custom configuration in
/etc/network/interfaces, we assume to be online and show a wired network
icon indicating manual network configuration.
* debian/control
- Add Build-Depends on pkg-config.
-- Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:22:11 +0100
network-manager-applet (0.6.6-4) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/patches/08-manual_means_always_online.patch
- manual-means-online: If there are interfaces that are not managed by
NetworkManager because they have custom configuration in
/etc/network/interfaces, we assume to be online and show a wired network
icon indicating manual network configuration.
* debian/patches/09-fix_assertion_because_of_unmanaged_devices.patch
- Fix assertion failures for unmanaged devices.
-- Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:48:15 +0100
Thanks for considering,
Michael
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