Bug#548661: dpkg: Override package dependencies

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> > You come up with this request only because Josselin Mouette doesn't
>> > want to drop network-manager to a Recommends or put an alternative
>> > in place.
>> Clearly, the current network-manager-in-gnome issue is the one that
>> prompted this bug-report, but only because it finally occurred to me
>> that a good solution to this problem is a more general solution that
>> gives more power to the end-user.
> For the record, it will be demoted to Recommends in the next upload.

Thanks, that's good to hear, but as mentioned: my request is not aimed
only at this particular problem.  Similar issues will show up again in
the future and even still exist in other packages.  And many of those
issues aren't really bugs, so we can't just wait for them to be fixed.

> (But don’t come complain when you find out that many things that work
> with NM in GNOME don’t with wicd.)

No risk of this coming from my side any time soon,


        Stefan "who hasn't managed to get NM working reliably for his
                wireless devices over the last ... year?"