** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Bionic)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Jeremy Bicha (jbicha)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1770673
Title:
Don't have gnome-control-center require network-manager-gnome
Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in gnome-control-center source package in Bionic:
Triaged
Bug description:
Impact
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Some people want to run a GNOME system without network-manager. Although I
believe that's not really officially supported by Canonical/Ubuntu, we don't
need to make things more difficult than needed for people that want to try that.
Therefore, we're dropping the Depends to a Recommends which aligns us
better with Debian since the major bug requiring it to be a Depends
seems to be fixed now.
Test Case
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Install the updates
Uninstall network-manager-gnome.
Ensure that ubuntu-desktop and gnome-control-center are still installed.
Regression Potential
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The Wi-Fi and Network panels probably will not work if NetworkManager is not
installed and running.
Original Bug Report
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The version of gnome-control-center in Ubuntu 18.04 now has a hard dependency
on network-manager-gnome.
This didn't used to be the case (in Ubuntu 16.04), and isn't the case
for the Debian version of basically the same package (gnome-control-
center_3.28.1-1_*.deb) - https://packages.debian.org/buster/gnome-
control-center
As there are many cases where network manager does more harm than good
to a Linux PC, not being able to change any Gnome settings if you
remove network manager seems a bit unfair.
Is there a good reason why this is a hard dependency in the Ubuntu
18.04 version of this package?
Required information:
1) The release of Ubuntu you are using:
Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Release: 18.04
2) The version of the package you are using:
gnome-control-center_3.28.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
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