Comment 5 for bug 134410

One of the main reason's wicd hasn't gotten packaged yet is because we had some design issues that made it somewhat difficult to do. In the next few days we'll be releasing a new version, 1.5.0, that will take care of most of them. I think we already missed the deadline for Intrepid, but right now the plan is to try to get into the repos for whatever comes next.

You won't see it replacing NM anytime soon, though. Right now wicd doesn't have support for VPN, dial-up, and some other less common, but still important to support protocols. NM has been in development longer, and has more people working on it, so right now its got some extras that wicd doesn't.