[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#439917: network-manager should not deactivate networks on uninstall

[Jon Dowland]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.4-8+b1
Severity: important

this is related to #432322 I suppose.

When you are removing network-manager, the postrm should
not deactivate your network connections, since the system
administrator has indicated (by removing n-m) that he/she
no longer wishes it to manage the network. Alternatively I
suppose kicking invoke-rc.d networking restart or ifupping
the interfaces n-m /was/ managing would be wise. But as it
stands, removing n-m can drop your machine from the network.

(As it happens, I didn't explicitly ask for n-m to be
removed either, I presume some dependency changed somewhere
and it was marked as automatic by aptitude, so the machine
dropping off the network came as a bit of a surprise).


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.104      add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                          1.1.1-3    simple interprocess messaging syst
pn  dhcdbd                        <none>     (no description available)
ii  hal                           0.5.9.1-4  Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown                      0.6.8      high level tools to configure netw
pn  iproute                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  iputils-arping                <none>     (no description available)
ii  libc6                         2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.1.1-3    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.74-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                   1.2.4-2    LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.14.0-2   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpg-error0                 1.4-2      library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                       0.5.9.1-4  Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libiw29                       29~pre22-1 Wireless tools - library
pn  libnl1-pre6                   <none>     (no description available)
pn  libnm-util0                   <none>     (no description available)
ii  lsb-base                      3.1-24     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
pn  wpasupplicant                 <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
pn  network-manager-gnome | netwo <none>     (no description available)