[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#591232: network-manager uninstall should not deactivate network

[Alexander Kurtz]

fixed 591232 0.8.0.999-1
tag 591232 confirmed
severity 591232 important
thanks

Hi,

I investigated this problem in a VM. Here's what I found:

Test time       | Network-Manager Version | Network connection is configured by
                |                         | /etc/network/interfaces | Network-Manager
----------------+-------------------------+-------------------------+------------------------
after install   | 0.6.6-3 (lenny)         | connection is recreated | connection is recreated
after remove    | 0.6.6-3 (lenny)         | connection is down      | connection is down
after install   | 0.8.0.999-1 (squeeze)   | connection is untouched | connection is recreated
after remove    | 0.8.0.999-1 (squeeze)   | connection is untouched | connection is untouched

So my conclusions are:

 a) Network-Manager does indeed have the described bug (connection down 
    after removal).

 b) The connection is also down after removal even if it was configured 
    manually.

 c) a) and b) only apply to the version in lenny, the NM version in 
    squeeze seems to behave in a sensible way

 d) The package description clearly says that Network Manager

     "is intended only for the desktop use-case, and is not intended
      for usage on servers"

    Therefore you should expect things to break if you have it installed
    on a server. If you want to install Gnome on your server do a 
    standard (non-graphical) install and then use

     apt-get install gnome network-manager-

    This will install gnome without NM.

I have changed the bug report according to the above. If you or the
maintainer think that is wrong, feel free to revert the changes.

Best regards

Alexander
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