Announcement letter of Network Manager 0.6 and KNetworkManager availability

[Michael Biebl]

Luka Renko schrieb:
> 
> This is really bad and I think your solution about ABI changes also
> makes sense.Is your libnl package already in sid?

Yes, libnl is in unstable. I used the latest SVN snapshot (pre6) which
doesn't need the pkgconfig patch anymore (it's already included upstream).

> 
>> 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.
> 
> I think your naming makes lots of sense - I hated nm-applet and also
> NetworkManager and knetworkmanager difference.

Glad you like it ;-)

> Did you also rename NM binaries (NetworkManager,
> NetworkManagerDispatcher). We will most probably not have VPN for
> Dapper.

No, the binaries are not renamed. Would cause too much problems and is
not necessary anyways. People will most probably never start nm-applet
or NetworkManager by hand. Should all happen automatically.

>> 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.
> 
> Agreed - it will ease maintenance of Ubuntu packages in future.
> I am not very experienced packager, but I will look into this and try
> to get this through for next round of packages (need to talk with the
> guys preparing packages),

Have you already done work to integrate NM into the existing network
infrastructure and play together more nicely with resolvconf? Right now
it takes over control of /etc/resolv.conf completely. Better integration
into resolvconf would be great.
Or make it possible to specify in /etc/network/interfaces which
interface is handled by NM and an ifup eth0 would then send dbus
commands to NM and recognize if an interfaces has been brought up
already by NM.

Cheers,
Michael

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