3 Dependency of meta-gnome on network-manager
7 The committee overrules the dependency of meta-gnome on
8 network-manager while concerns raised in <a
9 href="http://bugs.debian.org/681834#273">§4 of the decision in
10 #681834</a> remain unaddressed.
14 The technical committee was asked in #688772 to revisit the dependency
15 of gnome metapackages on network-manager. The decision is below:
19 The committee would like to thank Michael Biebl for discussing the
20 concerns of the technical committee and working to address those
21 concerns through technical changes to NM.
25 1. The TC notes the decision of the meta-gnome maintainers to
26 implement the TC decision in #681834 by:
27 (a) softening the dependency in the gnome-core metapackage
28 from Depends to Recommends, as required
29 (b) adding a new dependency in the gnome metapackage,
30 as a Depends. (In squeeze, this is where the dependency
31 was, but it was a Recommends.)
33 2. Our intent, as stated in the rationale section of our previous
34 decision (#681834, paras 3 and 5), is that squeeze users who have
35 gnome installed but not network-manager do not find that
36 network-manager becomes installed when they upgrade to wheezy.
38 3. A Recommends from gnome to network-manager-gnome would serve no
39 purpose in wheezy as gnome Depends on gnome-core which already
40 Recommends network-manager-gnome.
44 4. We overrule the decision of the meta-gnome maintainers to add a
45 dependency from gnome to network-manager-gnome; this dependency
46 should be removed. If in the opinion of the NM maintainer (and
47 before the release of wheezy the Chair of the Technical Committee
48 or an individual delegated by the Chair in consultation with the
49 Release Team) the concerns raised in §4 of the CTTE decision
50 #681834 have been addressed through technical means (e.g. by
51 preventing the starting of NM as discussed in #688772), the
52 meta-gnome maintainers may freely adjust the dependencies as
55 Specifically, valid bugs where existing valid network
56 configurations are broken by the automatic, required installation
57 on system upgrade of packages not previously installed which
58 perform network configuration on should have severity serious.
60 5. We request that the Release Team unblock update(s) to meta-gnome so
61 that our decisions may be implemented in wheezy.
63 6. We request that a release note is created explaining that gnome
64 users who do not currently have NM installed consider installing