That was discussed on IRC and there are some details in the upstream report (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779776)
The main issue on the GNOME side seems to be that libnm and libnm-glib bindings can't be loaded at the same time, which means that gnome-shell and its plugins need to be using the same library, which means they need to be updated in sync to avoid issue. There doesn't seem to be a need to remove libnm-glib from Ubuntu yet though (if it's still needed/used), upstream hasn't removed it either but building the nm plugins without it might lead to issues for unity- control-center which is using the old library still ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #779776 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779776 ** Summary changed: - libnm-glib removal transition + Transitioning GNOME away from libnm-glib -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager-pptp in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1744619 Title: Transitioning GNOME away from libnm-glib Status in network-manager-iodine package in Ubuntu: New Status in network-manager-l2tp package in Ubuntu: New Status in network-manager-openvpn package in Ubuntu: New Status in network-manager-pptp package in Ubuntu: New Status in network-manager-vpnc package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Debian has dropped libnm-glib support from most of its VPN plugins. We need to cherry-pick the gnome-shell 3.26.2-4 changes for gnome- shell to properly interact with VPNs. unity-control-center will need to be ported away from libnm-glib for it to display VPNs. The only other known affected desktop is Cinnamon which has fixes "pending" Here's the Debian transition bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=pkg-utopia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org;tag=libnm At first look, KDE Plasma did not seem to be hurt by the libnm-glib support removal, but Kubuntu should probably check more closely. I am filing this bug to coordinate this transition and keep the VPN plugins in -proposed until we at least update gnome-shell. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-iodine/+bug/1744619/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
