@ari-tczew Thx for keeping track on this :)

As we are actually going LTS again, i think it's really time to focus a
bit more on NM again. With all respect to the Ubuntu Devs, but it seems
since Alexander Sack moved on the other topics  we're actually lacking
man power over here. That's a little pity as:

- RedHat's upstream guys are pushing hard these days:

  + https://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2016/01/18/networkmanager-1-2-has-
better-wi-fi-scanning/

  + https://blogs.gnome.org/lkundrak/2016/01/18/networkmanger-and-
tracking-protection-in-wi-fi-networks/

  + http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/plain/NEWS

  + https://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-applet/plain/NEWS (...
they even integrated support for libappindicator!)

- Debian is currently quite ahead of Ubuntu with integrating NM

So at least my conclusion is:

1. There should be no 0ubuntuX package anymore, to "stand on Debian's
shoulders" again, as we have no dedicated man power to NM anymore.

2. We should embrace the newest upstream releases for two reason:

2.1 The awesome new features will make Xenial's networking rock till the
next LTS and we won't be so much behind other Linux distros like Arch
and Fedora.

2.2 We lower the maintainence costs with things like libappindicator
support, the GDBus porting and a supported upstream release where we can
fallback to cherry picking.

@Robert Ancell & Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre What do you think?

BTW I am willing to help a bit with the merging, packaging and testing
NM 1.2!

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