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+===== TITLE
+
+Dependency of meta-gnome on network-manager
+
+===== WEB SUMMARY
+
+The committee overrules the dependency of meta-gnome on
+network-manager while concerns raised in <a
+href="http://bugs.debian.org/681834#273">§4 of the decision in
+#681834</a> remain unaddressed.
+
+===== EMAIL INTRO
+
+The technical committee was asked in #688772 to revisit the dependency
+of gnome metapackages on network-manager. The decision is below:
+
+===== EMAIL EPILOGUE
+
+The committee would like to thank Michael Biebl for discussing the
+concerns of the technical committee and working to address those
+concerns through technical changes to NM.
+
+===== DECISION
+
+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
+
+4. We overrule the decision of the meta-gnome maintainers to add a
+   dependency from gnome to network-manager-gnome; this dependency
+   should be removed. If in the opinion of the NM maintainer (and
+   before the release of wheezy the Chair of the Technical Committee
+   or an individual delegated by the Chair in consultation with the
+   Release Team) the concerns raised in §4 of the CTTE decision
+   #681834 have been addressed through technical means (e.g. by
+   preventing the starting of NM as discussed in #688772), the
+   meta-gnome maintainers may freely adjust the dependencies as
+   usual.
+   
+   Specifically, valid bugs where existing valid network
+   configurations are broken by the automatic, required installation
+   on system upgrade of packages not previously installed which
+   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.