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[bojo42 <bojo42@xxxxxxxxx>]

@ari-tczew Thx for keeping track on this :)

As we are actually going LTS again, i think it's really time to focus a
bit more on NM again. With all respect to the Ubuntu Devs, but it seems
since Alexander Sack moved on the other topics  we're actually lacking
man power over here. That's a little pity as:

- RedHat's upstream guys are pushing hard these days:

  + https://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2016/01/18/networkmanager-1-2-has-
better-wi-fi-scanning/

  + https://blogs.gnome.org/lkundrak/2016/01/18/networkmanger-and-
tracking-protection-in-wi-fi-networks/

  + http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/plain/NEWS

  + https://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-applet/plain/NEWS (...
they even integrated support for libappindicator!)

- Debian is currently quite ahead of Ubuntu with integrating NM

So at least my conclusion is:

1. There should be no 0ubuntuX package anymore, to "stand on Debian's
shoulders" again, as we have no dedicated man power to NM anymore.

2. We should embrace the newest upstream releases for two reason:

2.1 The awesome new features will make Xenial's networking rock till the
next LTS and we won't be so much behind other Linux distros like Arch
and Fedora.

2.2 We lower the maintainence costs with things like libappindicator
support, the GDBus porting and a supported upstream release where we can
fallback to cherry picking.

@Robert Ancell & Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre What do you think?

BTW I am willing to help a bit with the merging, packaging and testing
NM 1.2!

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Title:
  Merge network-manager 1.0.10-1 (main) from Debian unstable (main)

Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  network-manager (1.0.10-1) unstable; urgency=medium

    * New upstream release.
    * Bump Build-Depend on libsoup2.4-dev to (>= 2.40) as per configure.ac.
    * Rebase patches.

   -- Michael Biebl <biebl@xxxxxxxxxx>  Thu, 24 Dec 2015 00:43:55 +0100

  network-manager (1.0.8-2) unstable; urgency=medium

    [ Chris Boot ]
    * Use dh_ppp to generate Breaks for ppp and find the path to the plugin
      directory. (Closes: #805565)

   -- Michael Biebl <biebl@xxxxxxxxxx>  Sat, 05 Dec 2015 22:07:15 +0100

  network-manager (1.0.8-1) unstable; urgency=medium

    * New upstream release.
      - MTU indicated by a VPN gateway is now properly applied.
        (Closes: #794237)
    * Rebase patches.
    * Install new nm-versions-macros.h header file.
    * Check errors of polkit_unix_session_new_for_process_sync(). Patch
      cherry-picked from upstream Git.

   -- Michael Biebl <biebl@xxxxxxxxxx>  Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:32:35 +0100

  network-manager (1.0.6-1) unstable; urgency=medium

    * New upstream release.
    * Refresh patches.
    * Update symbols file for libnm0 and libnm-glib4.
    * Drop debian/patches/Mark-virtual-ethernet-interfaces-as-unmanaged.patch,
      this patch is obsolete, since upstream provides a udev rules based
      mechanism now to mark virtual interfaces as unmanaged. (Closes: #794083)
    * Use GnuTLS crypto API instead of gcrypt. Patch cherry-picked from upstream
      Git. (Closes: #748675)
    * Fix command line parsing in nmcli. Patch cherry-picked from upstream Git.

   -- Michael Biebl <biebl@xxxxxxxxxx>  Fri, 28 Aug 2015 17:01:26 +0200

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