From: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:07:31 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: 681834 rra-draft-ijackson substantive changes
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681834 rra-draft-ijackson substantive changes
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diff --git a/681834_gnome_recommends_networkmanager/rra-draft-ijackson b/681834_gnome_recommends_networkmanager/rra-draft-ijackson
index 3aa53eb..b284c8c 100644
--- a/681834_gnome_recommends_networkmanager/rra-draft-ijackson
+++ b/681834_gnome_recommends_networkmanager/rra-draft-ijackson
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+ 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
@@ -13,11 +15,10 @@
     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,
@@ -44,9 +45,7 @@
     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
@@ -66,3 +65,13 @@
 
  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.