+ Whereas:
+
1. The gnome-core metapackage is intended to reflect the core of the
GNOME desktop environment: the basic tools and subsystems that
together constitute GNOME. The gnome metapackage is intended to
but not Depends. In wheezy, currently, network-manager has moved from
gnome to gnome-core, and from Recommends to Depends. This represents
a substantially increased insistance that users of the GNOME
- metapackages have network-manager installed. This change is, so far
- as the Technical Committee understands, driven primarily by user
- confusion and bug reports, but does not reflect a deeper or tighter
- integration of network-manager into GNOME than was the case in
- squeeze.
+ metapackages have network-manager installed. This change does
+ not reflect, so far as the Technical Committee understands, a
+ deeper or tighter integration of network-manager into GNOME than
+ was the case in squeeze.
4. If matters are left as they currently stand, users who have the gnome
metapackages installed but do not have network-manager installed will,
importance) will make it more difficult than necessary for GNOME users
to swap network management components, something for which there
appears to be noticable demand. We therefore believe that
- network-manager should be either moved to Recommends in gnome-core, or
- moved from the gnome-core metapackage to the gnome metapackage (which
- is defined as including additional, optional components).
+ network-manager should be moved to Recommends in gnome-core.
7. Please note that this is not a general statement about GNOME
components. It is very specific to network-manager because all of the
8. If any of these points did not apply, the situation would be
significantly different.
+
+ Therefore:
+
+ 9. The Technical Committee overrules the decision of the gnome-core
+ metapackage maintainers. The dependency from gnome-core to
+ network-manager-gnome should be downgraded to Recommends.
+
+ 10. The Technical Committee requests that the Release Managers
+ unblock the update to implement this decision, so that this
+ change may be released in wheezy.