[Bug 262191] Re: NM 0.7 Regression from 0.6.6 using VPNC plugin

[James Westby]

On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 15:25 +0000, Matt Trudel wrote:
> I'd probably leave it to Soren Hansen or Alexander Sack to make the call
> about this, since they are much more familiar with the package and code
> than I am, I think.

I've just realised, is this a patch to network-manager, or to the
vpnc plugin?

> In terms of my personal opinion about this, i think we should probably
> bring up the patch even if it's not in upstream, if only because the
> functionality was there in Hardy... I think it's a general rule of thumb
> (or should be), that you don't want to take a feature out if it's being
> used. Then again, I am not a MOTU, only starting to get familiar with
> the guidelines, rules and all. Maybe it be a good idea to bring it up on
> the ubuntu-devel mailing list?

I'm not sure it needs to go to ubuntu-devel, I think getting Alexander's
feedback would be a good first step.

> The fact that there is a bug open about this means that it is; but I'd
> be interested to know *how much*. I didn't notice much interest in
> trying to fix the bug in another way that the patch I'm proposing, and
> I'm since my UI skills are somewhat limited, it might take me a little
> while to get Dan's proposed way of fixing the bug to a working state --
> so far, all I have is the modified UI in glade done. I'll be spending
> more time on it this weekend.

Great, thanks.

James

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NM 0.7 Regression from 0.6.6 using VPNC plugin
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