Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.5-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
I have recently upgraded to network-manager 0.6.5-1 and can no longer
access any of my wireless networks.
The package control file says "Replaces: network-manager-gnome" which
appears to be a complete falsehood! There is no nm-applet in there at
all, which the changelog also states.
Unfortunately there is also no nm-applet anywhere else, as far as I can
see. Even worse, I can't find any Debian source to build one from.
In the interim I have reconstructed the network-manager-gnome 0.6.4-8
package in order to tell it that it's OK to install alongside
network-manager (>= 0.6.4) and have rebuild network-manager from source
to tell it that it *does not* provide network-manager-gnome.
Surprisingly, this approach works, and I can once more connect to my
wireless networks.
This suggests that one reasonable fix would be to release a new
network-manager-gnome 0.6.4-9 (or so) which claims to work with
network-manager (>= 0.6.4-8) and a new network-manager &co which doesn't
make false claims about providing / conflicting with that.
It seems fairly precipitate to have released this package into Sid
without having a corresponding network-manager-gnome package to go with
it, since the package is effectively useless without the UI required to
prompt me for my keyring password.
Regards,
Andrew McMillan
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.1-hippy (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=POSIX (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii adduser 3.104 add and remove users and groups
ii dbus 1.1.1-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii dhcdbd 3.0-1 D-Bus interface to the ISC DHCP cl
ii hal 0.5.9.1-4 Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii ifupdown 0.6.8 high level tools to configure netw
ii iproute 20070313-1 Professional tools to control the
ii iputils-arping 3:20070202-2 Tool to send ICMP echo requests to
ii libc6 2.6.1-1+v6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdbus-1-3 1.1.1-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.74-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgcrypt11 1.2.4-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.0-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgpg-error0 1.4-2 library for common error values an
ii libhal1 0.5.9.1-4 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libiw29 29~pre22-1 Wireless tools - library
ii libnl1-pre6 1.0~pre6-5 Library for dealing with netlink s
ii libnm-util0 0.6.5-1 network management framework (shar
ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii wpasupplicant 0.6.0-3 Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I
Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii network-manager-gnome 0.6.4-8+b1awm1 network management framework (GNOM
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