Bug#268334: Adds garbage to /etc/network/interfaces

[Thomas Hood]

Package: gnome-system-tools
Version: 0.90.0-3
Severity: important

I set Network Settings|General|Domain name to some value and
(after a long delay when the program doesn't appear to be doing
anything but is actually starting a PPP session and doing God
knows what else) one of the unpleasant results is that my
/etc/network/interfaces gets filled with garbage:

* Every logical interface definition now includes a "name" option
  which reads "Unknown interface type".  WTF is that for?  The
  _name_ of the logical interface definition is the string that
  occurs immediately after the keyword "iface" so I object to
  introducing an option called 'name'.
* inet static stanzas also get new "broadcast" and "network"
  options.  I didn't ask for these to be added.  They aren't
  needed.  My broadcast addresses were all correctly 
  calculated without the "broadcast" option. And the "network"
  option hasn't been used since Linux version 2.1.100 !


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27
Locale: LANG=en_IE@euro, LC_CTYPE=en_IE@euro

Versions of packages gnome-system-tools depends on:
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-6       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.6.1-3        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.6.2-6        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.6.1-1        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-16   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4               2.6.3-2        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.4.0-1      Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.4.6-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0               2.6.1.2-2      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.6.1.1-2      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.6.1.1-4      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.6.2-1        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.4.4-2        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.10.2-1.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.4.1-2        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-4          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session Management
ii  libxml2                   2.6.11-3       GNOME XML library
ii  perl                      5.8.4-2        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.1.1-5    compression library - runtime

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