How about this: Whereas:
1. Our technical objectives are: (i) Users who do not do anything special should get network-manager along with gnome (in this case, along with gnome-core). These users should continue to have network-manager installed, across upgrades. (ii) Users should be able to conveniently install and upgrade gnome without network-manager. (iii) Users who deliberately removed network-manager in squeeze (which they will generally have done by deliberately violating the Recommends from the gnome metapackage) should not have to do anything special to avoid it coming back in wheezy. (iv) Users who do make a decision that they do not want to use network-manager should not have to read specific documentation, or temporarily have network-manager installed, risk being exposed to bugs in network-manager's configuration arrangements, and so on. 2. Our technical objectives do NOT include: (i) The `gnome-core' metapackage should in some sense perfectly or exactly correspond to GNOME upstream's definition of `the GNOME Core', specifically including every such component as a hard Depends. (ii) The contents of any metapackage should be the correct expression of the subjective opinion of the metapackage's maintainer. (iii) Users who choose to globally disable Recommends should still get the desired behaviours as described above in point 1. 3. The solution recommended by the gnome-core maintainers is that users who do not wish to use network-manager should have it installed but disable it. Installing network-manager in these circumstances does not fully meet any of the above objectives apart from 1(i). 5. The alternative solution rejected by the gnome-core maintainers is downgrade the dependency to Recommends. This solution meets all of the objectives from point 1, except that infelicities in teh package manager may mean that the user in 1(iii) may need to take action to prevent network-manager being reinstalled during an upgrade. Therefore: 6. The Technical Committee overrules the decision of the gnome-core metapackage maintainer. The dependency from gnome-core to network-manager-gnome should be downgraded to Recommends. 7. The Technical Committee requests that the Release Managers unblock the update to implement this decision, so that this change may be released in wheezy. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org