libnm-glib-dev missing dependency on network-manager-dev

Add the dependency network-manager-dev in libnm-glib-dev and update Standards-Version to 3.8.0

network-manager-dev depends on libnm-glib-dev and not the other way around? Why do we need a dependency in both directions?

I tried to compile knetworkmanager from svn it complained about missing libnm-glib(-dev) I installed it but configure couldn't find it, because pkg-config won't find it without network-manager-dev.
So, yes you are right with network-manager-dev depends on libnm-glib-dev but otherwise libnm-glib-dev is useless without network-manager-dev and this should be somehow indicted through the dependencies.

I removed network-manager-dev:

Removing network-manager-dev ...
asac@hector:/tmp/sponsoring$ pkg-config --list-all | grep libnm
libnm-util libnm_util - Convenience library for clients of NetworkManager
libnm_glib_vpn libnm_glib_vpn - Convenience library for clients of NetworkManager
libnm_glib libnm_glib - Convenience library for clients of NetworkManager

so it works! Unless I dont get the point, its knetworkmanager that should build-depend on network-manager-dev instead. Reassigning.

maybe its just really the knetworkmanager upstream configure message that is confusing. Please check for what .pc file knetworkmanager really checks when complaining in the reported way.

No it isn't, it checks for following needed packages
* hal
* libnm-util >= 0.7
* libnm_glib >= 0.7
* libnl-1
* dbusxml2qt3

so their are no direct network-manager dependencies but only indirect through libnm-util and libnm_glib.

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:08:32AM -0000, Martin Nowack wrote:
> No it isn't, it checks for following needed packages
> * hal
> * libnm-util >= 0.7
> * libnm_glib >= 0.7
> * libnl-1
> * dbusxml2qt3

Did you assemble that list from looking at the configure.in code or
from what ./configure outputs?

 - Alexander

From the configure.in and as a result they were also shown in the configure script which was autogened and does not exist after checkout, so configure.in is the source and also should be not outdated.

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:02:01AM -0000, Martin Nowack wrote:
> >From the configure.in and as a result they were also shown in the
> configure script which was autogened and does not exist after checkout,
> so configure.in is the source and also should be not outdated.
>

OK. Please attach the config.log that captured the failure. Thanks!

 - Alexander

so I updated to the latest nm packages, I removed the network-manager-dev package, run configure again and it failed (see attached config.log)

The nice message:

**************************************************
*
* KNetworkManager will not be built due to missing dependencies!
* Missing: libnm-glib
*
**************************************************

Running the following: pkg-config libnm_glib --print-errors

Package NetworkManager was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `NetworkManager.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'NetworkManager', required by 'libnm_glib', not found

After installing network-manager-dev it works again, like a charm.
So NetwormManager is a dependency for libnm_glib at least currently. I looked at the current svn head of NetworkManager so it seams nm has not libnm-glib and libnm-util as dependency it is the other way around at least for the libnm-glib.

Thanks for the info. Will look into fixing that dependency.

 status triaged

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:41:03PM -0000, Martin Nowack wrote:
> so I updated to the latest nm packages, I removed the network-manager-
> dev package, run configure again and it failed (see attached config.log)
>
> The nice message:
>
> **************************************************
> *
> * KNetworkManager will not be built due to missing dependencies!
> * Missing: libnm-glib
> *
> **************************************************
>
> Running the following: pkg-config libnm_glib --print-errors
>
> Package NetworkManager was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `NetworkManager.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> Package 'NetworkManager', required by 'libnm_glib', not found
>
> After installing network-manager-dev it works again, like a charm.
> So NetwormManager is a dependency for libnm_glib at least currently. I looked at the current svn head of NetworkManager so it seams nm has not libnm-glib and libnm-util as dependency it is the other way around at least for the libnm-glib.
>
> ** Attachment added: "config.log"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/17692826/config.log
>

 - Alexander

$ pkg-config --libs libnm_glib
Package NetworkManager was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `NetworkManager.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'NetworkManager', required by 'libnm_glib', not found
$

Problem still present in intrepid and jaunty. Reassigning back to libnm-glib-dev, since this is confirmed to be an NM problem.

committed in lp:~network-manager/network-manager/ubuntu.0.7/rev 2988

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This bug was fixed in the package network-manager - 0.7-0ubuntu2

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network-manager (0.7-0ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * ppp 2.4.5git transition: bump ppp-dev lower version bound to 2.4.5~
    - update debian/control

  * fix LP: #120363 - NetworkManager should support smartcard based
    certificate; we apply the backend patch contributed by David Smith
    - add debian/patches/lp120363_smartcard_pkcs11.patch
    - update debian/patches/series

  [ Alessandro Ghersi <email address hidden> ]
  * fix LP: #270584 add the dependency network-manager-dev in
    libnm-glib-dev; also fixes LP: #321473 liferea doesnt handle
    network-manager online/offline state
    - update debian/control
  * update Standards-Version to 3.8.0
    - update debian/control

  [ Steven S Danna <email address hidden> ]
  * fix LP: #283416 - add /etc/init.d/NetworkManager status; init
    script was fixed upstream; however, we take the lsb-base lower
    version bound from the bug (>= 3.2-14)
    - udpate debian/control

 -- Alexander Sack <email address hidden> Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:16:12 +0100

Offhand, this seems like something really, really trivial to patch Intrepid's version of libnm-glib-dev with.