Package: gnome-core Version: 1:43+1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: inasprec...@disroot.org
Dear Maintainer, to this day, gnome-core still recommends network-manager-gnome. While this may sound reasonable given the package names, the situation is misleading: what network-manager-gnome offers boils down to two tools: nm-applet and nm-connection-editor. Now, nm-applet is, ironically, useless in a vanilla GNOME desktop with no extensions, since GNOME hasn't had tray icon support in quite a few years, including the gnome-core parckage in bookworm (1:43+1). The other tool, nm-connection-editor, merely duplicates functionality that is already present in the built-in gnome-control-center. For these reasons, I feel that network-manager-gnome by itself is largely unnecessary nowadays when running a GNOME desktop and should not be installed by default (not even recommneded). However, this raises an important point: as of now, it is technically possible to install gnome-core without network-manager (the package which provides the actual NetworkManager subsystem, not the network-manager-gnome applet!) even without disabling the installation of "Recommends" packages. In my opinion, this is undesirable for most people, since tihs would leave you with no way to manage connections graphically from gnome-control-center (unless of course there are other tools installed). Right now, if gnome-core is installed through the default apt policy of installing recommended packages by default, network-manager-gnome is pulled in, which then depends on network-manager, pulling it in as well. The result is that network-manager is installed when gnome-core is installed with its "Recommends" packages, but only because of an indirect and (in my opinion) legacy "Recommends" relationship with network-manager-gnome and not a proper, direct "Recommends" relationship with network-manager. To conclude, I propose the following dependency changes (which as of now still persist in the gnome-core package included in Sid). 1. gnome-core should not recommend network-manager-gnome. Remove it from "Recommends". 1. gnome-core *should* recommend network-manager. Include it in "Recommends". Thank you for your time. -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-21-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages gnome-core depends on: ii adwaita-icon-theme 43-1 ii at-spi2-core 2.46.0-5 ii baobab 43.0-1 ii dconf-cli 0.40.0-4 ii dconf-gsettings-backend 0.40.0-4 ii eog 43.2-1 ii evince 43.1-2+b1 ii evolution-data-server 3.46.4-2 ii fonts-cantarell 0.303.1-1 ii gdm3 43.0-3 ii gkbd-capplet 3.28.1-1 ii glib-networking 2.74.0-4 ii gnome-backgrounds 43.1-1 ii gnome-bluetooth-sendto 42.5-3 ii gnome-calculator 1:43.0.1-2 ii gnome-characters 43.1-1+deb12u1 ii gnome-console 43.0-2 ii gnome-contacts 43.1-1 ii gnome-control-center 1:43.6-2~deb12u1 ii gnome-disk-utility 43.0-1 ii gnome-font-viewer 43.0-1 ii gnome-keyring 42.1-1+b2 ii gnome-logs 43.0-1 ii gnome-menus 3.36.0-1.1 ii gnome-online-accounts 3.46.0-1 ii gnome-session 43.0-1+deb12u1 ii gnome-settings-daemon 43.0-4 ii gnome-shell 43.9-0+deb12u2 ii gnome-shell-extensions 43.1-1 ii gnome-software 43.5-1~deb12u1 ii gnome-sushi 43.0-2 ii gnome-system-monitor 42.0-2 ii gnome-text-editor 43.2-1 ii gnome-themes-extra 3.28-2 ii gnome-user-docs 43.0-2 ii gnome-user-share 43.0-1 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 43.0-1 ii gstreamer1.0-packagekit 1.2.6-5 ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-base 1.22.0-3+deb12u1 ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-good 1.22.0-5+deb12u1 ii gvfs-backends 1.50.3-1 ii gvfs-fuse 1.50.3-1 ii libatk-adaptor 2.46.0-5 ii libcanberra-pulse 0.30-10 ii libglib2.0-bin 2.74.6-2+deb12u2 ii libpam-gnome-keyring 42.1-1+b2 ii libproxy1-plugin-gsettings 0.4.18-1.2 ii libproxy1-plugin-webkit 0.4.18-1.2 ii librsvg2-common 2.54.7+dfsg-1~deb12u1 ii nautilus 43.2-1 ii pipewire-audio 0.3.65-3+deb12u1 ii sound-theme-freedesktop 0.8-2 ii system-config-printer-common 1.5.18-1 ii system-config-printer-udev 1.5.18-1 ii totem 43.0-2 ii tracker 3.4.2-1 ii xdg-desktop-portal-gnome 43.1-2 ii yelp 42.2-1 ii zenity 3.44.0-1 Versions of packages gnome-core recommends: ii chromium [gnome-www-browser] 125.0.6422.60-1~deb12u1 ii firefox-esr [gnome-www-browser] 115.11.0esr-1~deb12u1 pn libproxy1-plugin-networkmanager <none> pn low-memory-monitor <none> pn network-manager-gnome <none> Versions of packages gnome-core suggests: pn gnome <none> -- no debconf information
