Bug#688772: Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome

2012-10-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, this is a reply to a message from the older bug but it has never been answered and I believe it's useful to take a proper decision so I answer in the new bug: On Tue, 11 Sep 2012, Ian Jackson wrote: Jeremy Bicha writes (Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome): I see two

Bug#688772: Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome

2012-10-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Ian Jackson wrote: Raphael Hertzog writes (Re: Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome): Nobody responded to this but while discussing with the GNOME maintainers I quickly got the answer. NM is a build-time dependency of GNOME Shell but Debian has

Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome

2012-09-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 sep 12, 21:42:05, Philipp Kern wrote: And I did not experience network breakage during upgrade bugs recently. I think the LAN ports just stick around and I don't do upgrades over wi-fi. I do, on unstable (mostly). The wireless connection is reset, which, depending on what else

Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome

2012-09-15 Thread Bdale Garbee
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Russ Allbery writes (Re: Bug#681834: network-manager, gnome, Recommends vs Depends): The options are: A. Recommends not Depends (overrule maintainers). 3:1 required. F. Further Discussion. I vote AF. Bdale pgpFnBm8vt7pB.pgp

Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome

2012-09-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 04:10:10PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: The options are: A. Recommends not Depends (overrule maintainers). 3:1 required. F. Further Discussion. I vote AF. (FWIW I am chiefly persuaded by the upgrade arguments; if not for that then other solutions such as remove the

Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome

2012-09-14 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 09:32:32PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: - I experienced breakages on NM on upgrades on several occasions, whereby I switched to wicd. But then sadly NM is the only network connection management tool for laptop users in wheezy that handles IPv6 properly. Hence I turned

Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome

2012-09-14 Thread Andreas Barth
* Ian Jackson (ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk) [120911 15:10]: Russ Allbery writes (Re: Bug#681834: network-manager, gnome, Recommends vs Depends): Here's what I now have: I asked for comments and no-one had any. So I hereby call for votes on the resolution below. The options are:

Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome

2012-09-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Chris Knadle - Furthermore my experience has been that disabling NM via modifying the init script (i.e. the exit 0 suggestion which came up on [debian-devel], or making the init script non-executble) only works until NM is upgraded, whereby the init script is replaced and thus the

Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome

2012-09-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes (Re: Bug#681834: network-manager, gnome, Recommends vs Depends): Here's what I now have: I asked for comments and no-one had any. So I hereby call for votes on the resolution below. The options are: A. Recommends not Depends (overrule maintainers). 3:1 required. F.

Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome

2012-09-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes (Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome): The options are: A. Recommends not Depends (overrule maintainers). 3:1 required. F. Further Discussion. I vote: A F Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome

2012-09-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012, Ian Jackson wrote: Russ Allbery writes (Re: Bug#681834: network-manager, gnome, Recommends vs Depends): Here's what I now have: I asked for comments and no-one had any. So I hereby call for votes on the resolution below. The options are: A. Recommends not

Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome

2012-09-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: I asked for comments and no-one had any. So I hereby call for votes on the resolution below. The options are: A. Recommends not Depends (overrule maintainers). 3:1 required. F. Further Discussion. The full resolution text,

Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome

2012-09-11 Thread Jeremy Bicha
I see two things missing from this resolution: 1. GNOME has a stronger dependency on NM than they did when Squeeze was released. GNOME Shell now has a hard dependency on NM. The user has to take separate, explicit (and somewhat unusual for the average user) action to disable network-manager

Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome

2012-09-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Jeremy Bicha writes (Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome): I see two things missing from this resolution: 1. GNOME has a stronger dependency on NM than they did when Squeeze was released. GNOME Shell now has a hard dependency on NM. Do you mean http://packages.debian.org

Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome

2012-09-11 Thread Chris Knadle
On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 13:52:47, Jeremy Bicha wrote: I see two things missing from this resolution: 1. GNOME has a stronger dependency on NM than they did when Squeeze was released. GNOME Shell now has a hard dependency on NM. The user has to take separate, explicit (and somewhat

Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome

2012-09-11 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 11 September 2012 21:32, Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us wrote: - There are other network managers than NM. Of course, but only one is part of GNOME. Nothing else integrates into GNOME Shell's top bar or System Settings (gnome-control-center). GNOME 2 was different as wicd could

Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome

2012-09-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us writes: - Furthermore my experience has been that disabling NM via modifying the init script (i.e. the exit 0 suggestion which came up on [debian-devel], or making the init script non-executble) only works until NM is upgraded, whereby the init

Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome

2012-09-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Jeremy Bicha jbi...@ubuntu.com writes: On 11 September 2012 21:32, Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us wrote: - My experience has been that NM conflicts with wicd when NM is running. You have two network managers running on your computer and you expect networking to not have problems? The

Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome

2012-09-11 Thread Chris Knadle
On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 21:59:49, Jeremy Bicha wrote: On 11 September 2012 21:32, Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us wrote: - There are other network managers than NM. Of course, but only one is part of GNOME. Nothing else integrates into GNOME Shell's top bar or System Settings

Bug#681834: Call for votes on network-manager, gnome

2012-09-11 Thread Chris Knadle
On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 22:04:08, Russ Allbery wrote: Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us writes: - Furthermore my experience has been that disabling NM via modifying the init script (i.e. the exit 0 suggestion which came up on [debian-devel], or making the init script