This is the current text of the options for #688772. I'd like to vote on this before the 9th if at all possible. If anyone has any comments, changes, or would like to propose different options, please do so now.
=== START === 1. The TC notes the decision of the meta-gnome maintainers to implement the TC decision in #681834 by: (a) softening the dependency in the gnome-core metapackage from Depends to Recommends, as required (b) adding a new dependency in the gnome metapackage, as a Depends. (In squeeze, this is where the dependency was, but it was a Recommends.) 2. Our intent, as stated in the rationale section of our previous decision (#681834, paras 3 and 5), is that squeeze users who have gnome installed but not network-manager do not find that network-manager becomes installed when they upgrade to wheezy. 3. A Recommends from gnome to network-manager-gnome would serve no purpose in wheezy as gnome Depends on gnome-core which already Recommends network-manager-gnome. Therefore A 4. We overrule the decision of the meta-gnome maintainers to add a A dependency from gnome to network-manager-gnome; this dependency A should be removed for the release of wheezy. B 4. We overrule the decision of the meta-gnome maintainers to add a B dependency from gnome to network-manager-gnome; this dependency B should be removed. If in the opinion of the NM maintainer (and B before the release of wheezy the Release Managers) the concerns B raised in ยง4 of the CTTE decision #681834 have been addressed B through technical means (e.g. by preventing the starting of NM as B discussed in #688772), the meta-gnome maintainers may freely B adjust the dependencies as usual. B B Specifically, valid bugs where existing valid network B configurations are broken by the automatic, required installation B on system upgrade of packages not previously installed which B perform network configuration on should have severity serious. 5. We request that the Release Team unblock update(s) to meta-gnome so that our decisions may be implemented in wheezy. 6. We request that a release note is created explaining that gnome users who do not currently have NM installed consider installing it. === END === Don Armstrong -- Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies [...] a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. [...] This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. [...] [I]s there no other way the world may live? -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org