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

[Michel Briand]

Alexander Kurtz <kurtz.alex at googlemail.com> - Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:20:23
+0200

>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

Thank you very much for this investigation.

My "use case" was not to install NM on a server, but, with a fresh
"normal" install (which includes gnome and this NM), was to try to
remove it :).

Anyway, if squeeze's version seems to behave correctly, then that's
nice !

Regards,

Michel
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