[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#765356: clobbers resolv.conf

[intrigeri]

Control: severity -1 important

Hi,

intrigeri wrote (01 Nov 2014 12:29:34 GMT) :
> Daniel Pocock wrote (14 Oct 2014 12:27:52 GMT) :
>> I've rated this serious because it makes the network unusable when it
>> happens and it requires a user with root privileges to rectify it.

> IMO, given the unusual settings in which the problem happens, severity
> should rather be important:

>       a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package,
>       without rendering it completely unusable to everyone.

> I'll let the maintainers judge, though.

Two weeks later, I'm going ahead and downgrading severity.

> Indeed, NetworkManager has no way to guess that it should not touch
> resolv.conf in this specific case. Your OpenSWAN VPN isn't managed by
> NM, is it?

> Could you please try checking "Use this connection only for resources
> on its network" in the NM settings of your Wi-Fi connection, and see
> if it fixes things for you?

Also, I think the right way to integrate NM with other tools that want
to manage resolv.conf too is to use resolvconf, which NM supposedly
supports nowadays. May you please test if this works for you?

Cheers,
--
intrigeri