[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#509006: network-manager: Loses wired connection upon upgrade (from 0.6.6-2+b1 to 0.7.0~svn4191-1)

[Michael Biebl]

Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> (17/12/2008):
>> It's the same underlying issue.
> 
> Alright.
> 
>> What has changed though between 0.6 and 0.7 is the way, how NM
>> determines when to mark a device managed or unmanaged (see the 0.6
>> README.Debian and the new README.Debian).
>>
>> That's why you see this "regression" with 0.7.  (It actually isn't a
>> regression, as you can now controll more easily when to mark a device
>> managed/unmanaged)
> 
> Well, for people who want it to “just work” (and AFAICT that's the aim
> of network-manager people), it was previously working, and is no longer
> without tweaking a configuration file, hence my calling it a regression
> (from an very-end-user point of view).

I'm currently considering to switch the default mode to

managed=true


This also has potential pit falls (like ifupdown and NM fighting over who should
manage a device that is listed in /e/n/i). I haven't decided yet.

The long term goal, is to use manage=true as default though.

Michael
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