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.
+A
+A 5. We request that the Release Team unblock update(s) to meta-gnome so
+A that our decisions may be implemented in wheezy.
+A
+A 6. We request that a release note is created explaining that gnome
+A users who do not currently have NM installed consider installing
+A it.
+
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 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.
+B
+B 5. We request that the Release Team unblock update(s) to meta-gnome so
+B that our decisions may be implemented in wheezy.
+B
+B 6. We request that a release note is created explaining that gnome
+B users who do not currently have NM installed consider installing
+B it.
-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.
-
+C 4. After further discussion, we understand that reintroducing
+C network-manager on upgrade was part of the intent, due to both
+C substantial improvements in network-manager and tighter integration of
+C network-manager with the GNOME desktop in wheezy. Since the gnome
+C metapackage has historically been more aggressive at pulling in
+C additional packages, we believe the move of the dependency from
+C gnome-core to gnome is an acceptable compromise that was not raised
+C during the previous discussion. Users who want to remove
+C network-manager can still use the gnome-core metapackage to get the
+C basic GNOME desktop functionality.
+C
+C We recommend that this upgrade behavior for users of the gnome
+C metapackage be documented in the release notes.