Cyril Brulebois schrieb: > Andrew McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (30/08/2007): >> The package control file says "Replaces: network-manager-gnome" which >> appears to be a complete falsehood! There is no nm-applet in there at >> all, which the changelog also states. > > According to the changelog, not accurate: > | + Add Conflicts/Replaces: network-manager-gnome (<< 0.6.5-1) as [...] > > Not doing so would be a grave bug (file conflict between packages).
This Conflict/Replaces is necesessary, as the network-manager binary package now ships files which were previously part of the network-manager-gnome package. So this is required to ensure a proper upgrade. >> Unfortunately there is also no nm-applet anywhere else, as far as I can >> see. Even worse, I can't find any Debian source to build one from. > > http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html > > Description: > network-manager-gnome - network management framework (GNOME frontend) > Changes: > network-manager-applet (0.6.5-1) unstable; urgency=low > . > * Initial release after the package split. > * Imported files from previous network-manager source package > - debian/nm-applet.sgml > - debian/network-manager-applet.manpages > - debian/network-manager-gnome.README.Debian > - debian/patches/01-dbus_access_nm_applet.patch > - debian/patches/10-po_fr.patch > - debian/patches/11-po_de.patch > * debian/patches/12-po_jp.patch > - Fixes for the Japanese translation. (Closes: #430672) > Patch by Kobayashi Noritada > * debian/patches/20-stable_branch_updates_r98.patch > - Pull updates from the stable branch up until revision 98. > - Contains various bug fixes and translation updates. > * Add debian/watch to track new upstream releases. > >> This suggests that one reasonable fix would be to release a new >> network-manager-gnome 0.6.4-9 (or so) which claims to work with >> network-manager (>= 0.6.4-8) and a new network-manager &co which >> doesn't make false claims about providing / conflicting with that. > > The reasonable fix is to wait for the package to get out of NEW. > >> It seems fairly precipitate to have released this package into Sid >> without having a corresponding network-manager-gnome package to go >> with it, since the package is effectively useless without the UI >> required to prompt me for my keyring password. > > AFAICT, gnome isn't the only UI (network-manager-kde…). By reading the > changelog, you may also notice that several bugs are fixed by this > upload, that might explains why the maintainer didn't wait for the other > package to go out of NEW. > The simple reason is, that the new network-manager-applet source package 0.6.5 (which builds the network-manager-gnome binary package) requires network-manager >= 0.6.5 for compilation. That's why I had to upload network-manager 0.6.5 first. I know this is a bit unfortunate and I'm sorry for the inconvenience. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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