Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2025-01-28 20:02:48) > Control: block -1 by 919619 > > Matthieu Baerts wrote: > > People using NetworkManager, and installing iwd will certainly want NM > > to use it. > [...] > > This is what is being done on Ubuntu: > > > > > > https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iwd/commit/?id=e42ca2f7634eada23e62b07f40901250c912ae0f > > > > This should not affect existing users already using iwd with NM, or > > the ones not using NetworkManager. > > I would love IWD to be usable out of the box, also together with > network-manager. Unfortunately it is not as simple as adding that > config snippet to network-manager: > > * network-manager plugin integrating with IWD is badly written > * Debian-maintainers of network-manager refuse to follow Debian > Policy regarding Recommends: versus Depends, so IWD cannot replace > wpasupplicant, but need to be installed concurrently, and the user > needs to manually disable wpasupplicant > > As I understand it, adding this snippet would mean that installing IWD > would make network-manager pass secrets IWD instead of wpasupplicant, > but would still install wpasupplicant which would cause IWD to not work > until manually disabling wpasupplicant. > > In short, this issue is blocked by bug#919619 requesting network-manager > to releax its policy-violating too strong dependency on wpasupplicant.
...and only after posting the above did I realize that bug#919619 was fixed two years ago. Yes, I will apply this patch, together with a conflict on wpasupplicant. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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