On Tue, 05 Nov 2024 at 12:05:41 +0000, Mike Gabriel wrote: > On Mi 16 Okt 2024 21:00:41 CEST, Michael Biebl wrote: > > Am 14.10.24 um 17:13 schrieb Simon McVittie: > > > On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 at 16:33:40 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > > The name of the network-manager-gnome package is indeed a bit misleading > > > > nowadays. > > > > Thus for some time I contemplated splitting up the package (similar to > > > > how > > > > Fedora has done) into network-manager-applet and nm-connection-editor. > > > > The > > > > former would contain the nm-applet binary, the latter > > > > nm-connection-editor. > > > > > > > > network-manager-gnome would become a transitional metapackage depending > > > > on > > > > both.
This split is now present in unstable. > In MATE Desktop we actively want / use / rely-on network-manager-gnome. When > touching the whole thing, may I suggest renaming the bin:pkg > "network-manager-gnome" to another name? Such es network-manager-applet? Please see the quoted text above, and please change MATE's dependency to either nm-applet (if you want the icon in the notification area/"tray") or nm-connection-editor (if you want the configuration editor) or both (if you want all of the previous functionality of n-m-gnome). The network-manager-gnome transitional package cannot usefully be renamed: the whole point of transitional packages is that they keep the old name, and depend on the new name(s). But desktop environments can stop depending on it. smcv