Don Armstrong <[email protected]> writes: > This is the current text of the options for #688772. I'd like to vote on > this before the 9th if at all possible. If anyone has any comments, > changes, or would like to propose different options, please do so now.
After considering this and following the discussion, I'm not willing to vote for either A or B, and would end up voting further discussion. I'd like to add an option C, along the lines of: 4. After further discussion, we understand that reintroducing network-manager on upgrade was part of the intent, due to both substantial improvements in network-manager and tighter integration of network-manager with the GNOME desktop in wheezy. Since the gnome metapackage has historically been more aggressive at pulling in additional packages, we believe the move of the dependency from gnome-core to gnome is an acceptable compromise that was not raised during the previous discussion. Users who want to remove network-manager can still use the gnome-core metapackage to get the basic GNOME desktop functionality. We recommend that this upgrade behavior for users of the gnome metapackage be documented in the release notes. This is not to say that I'm opposed to fixing network-manager to deal with some of the other upgrade problems. I'm all in favor! But I'm not comfortable with making inclusion of the dependency conditional on solving the broader problem in the way described there. If it happens in time for the release, I'm all in favor, and it makes it an even better compromise, but I think it would be acceptable to release without that fix and document the issue in the release notes. In other words, my *preferred* option is B with the fix to the network-manager package, but B as phrased has consequences for not getting that fix done in time that I'm not comfortable with. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
