bug#62513: network-manager updated to unstable version?

[John Kehayias]

Hi Guix,

(cc'ing Maxim as author of last few network-manager version updates.)

I noticed a recent up date to network-manager to 1.43.4 (previously 1.41.2 and 
1.40.0) but can't find a record of that release. In their docs there is no 
mention of anything newer than the 1.42 release [0, 1] and they mention the 
even-numbered releases being the stable series [2]. Indeed, Arch only has 
1.42.4 in their repos [3]. I only see "dev" tags for these 1.43 versions in 
their gitlab.

Should we be on a 1.42.y version instead?

I noticed this because the update to 1.43.4 has an issue with my (wired) 
connection not resuming from sleep when previously it did. I have to restart 
the service. I had some logs I can dig up, but in discussing on IRC (no logs 
that day it seems) there was nothing out of the ordinary and the shepherd 
service seemed normal.

I've since reconfigured to a commit before the most recent version change, 
namely 5174820753be045ba4fc7cc93da33f4e0b730bc3 and cannot reproduce the issue 
so seems due to newer versions of network-manager after 1.41.2 at least.

Note that this may have been reported upstream [4], but I haven't tested with 
the current stable release. So this may be a separate (upstream) issue.

Anyway, the first question is what version we should have of network-manager?

Thanks!
John


[0 
]<https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/blob/main/NEWS>

[1] <https://networkmanager.dev/blog/>

[2] <https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager/>

[3] <https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/networkmanager/>

[4] <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/issues/1258>