Announcement letter of Network Manager 0.6 and KNetworkManager availability

[Michael Biebl]

Mario Đanić wrote:
> Dear users, developers, contributors, and everyone else,

Some comments from the Debian maintainer of libnl and contributor of the
Debian-Utopia project:

> libnl, a dependency of n-m 0.6 (by Tom Parker)

Upstream chose to use a broken versioning scheme:

dpkg --compare-versions "1.0" "<" "1.0-pre5" && echo "Strange"

So I'd suggest to use a version number like 0.99+1.0-pre5 for a smooth
upgrade path to the final 1.0 release. He also encodes -preX into the
so-version name and according to his statements also breaks the API
between different -pre releases. That's why I decided to encode the -pre
into the binary package name: libnl1-pre5 in your case.


At the Debian-Utopia [1] we also decided to use a consistent naming
scheme for the network-manager related packages. So we called nm-applet
network-manager-gnome, knetworkmanager has the binary package
network-manager-kde and the VPN plugins, which we will start packaging
soon will also follow this scheme: network-manager-(vpnc|pptp|openvpn)

Packages for NM 0.6.1 and knetworkmanager are already available on our
alioth SVN repository [2] and will be released to unstable as soon as
wpasupplicant 0.4.8 hits unstable.

As I'm interested in good collaboration between Debian und Ubuntu it
would be a good idea imo to use a common naming for the packages in both
distros to avoid problems and duplication of work in the future.


Regards,
Michael

[1] http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-utopia/
[2] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-utopia

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