Bug#1110938: apt autoremove remove network-manager-gnome and netwok-manager-applet after migration to trixie

Antoine Le Gonidec <[email protected]> Fri, 15 Aug 2025 21:56:00 +0200
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Le Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 09:26:52PM +0200, Michael Biebl a =C3=A9crit :
> Antoine, could you elaborate why you marked this as critical?

With the unexpected removal of the network-manager applet I assumed the
machine would lose network access, and could not restore it due to
network being a requirement for installing the now missing packages. For
a lot of users, this would be as good as an unusable system.

But I might have been a bit quick with that: is that only the applet
that is removed? The core network-manager package itself is staying in
place, so network access is preserved?

If I was wrong about the loss of network access, then the severity
should probably be no higher than important.

PS: I added a comment with the bts command, but I notice it is not made
really obvious. Even I, knowing it was there, took a little while to
find it under the "full text" link next to the severity change notice.
I=E2=80=99m probably no longer going to rely on that comment system.

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