Don't have gnome-control-center require network-manager-gnome
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Bionic |
Won't Fix
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Low
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Jeremy Bícha |
Bug Description
Impact
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Some people want to run a GNOME system without network-manager. Although I believe that's not really officially supported by Canonical/Ubuntu, we don't need to make things more difficult than needed for people that want to try that.
Therefore, we're dropping the Depends to a Recommends which aligns us better with Debian since the major bug requiring it to be a Depends seems to be fixed now.
Test Case
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Install the updates
Uninstall network-
Ensure that ubuntu-desktop and gnome-control-
Regression Potential
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The Wi-Fi and Network panels probably will not work if NetworkManager is not installed and running.
Original Bug Report
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The version of gnome-control-
This didn't used to be the case (in Ubuntu 16.04), and isn't the case for the Debian version of basically the same package (gnome-
As there are many cases where network manager does more harm than good to a Linux PC, not being able to change any Gnome settings if you remove network manager seems a bit unfair.
Is there a good reason why this is a hard dependency in the Ubuntu 18.04 version of this package?
Required information:
1) The release of Ubuntu you are using:
Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Release: 18.04
2) The version of the package you are using:
gnome-control-
Related branches
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
assignee: | nobody → Jeremy Bicha (jbicha) |
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and help make Ubuntu better.
I changed the recommends to depends in https:/ /launchpad. net/ubuntu/ +source/ gnome-control- center/ 1:3.22. 1-1ubuntu2 which points to https:/ /bugs.debian. org/845021 with more details about why the change was needed.
But it looks like the dependency is no longer required for at least basic functionality.