[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#519309: Bug#519309: network-manager: no longer falls back to link-local ipv4

[Julien Cristau]

On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 01:34 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Julien Cristau wrote:
> > since the upgrade to 0.7, it seems that NM doesn't fall back to
> > link-local ipv4 in case dhcp times out, and instead goes into
> > 'disconnected' state.  I'm not sure what info I can provide to debug
> > this, following is an excerpt from daemon.log.
> > 
> 
> Hi Julien,
> 
> this is actually not a bug per se, but a upstream decision to behave exactly
> this way. See [1] for upstreams opinion about this matter.
> As I mostly agree with upstreams reasoning I don't plan to deviate from upstream
> unless you have a valid use case why the old behavious should be retained.

hrm. ok, i guess, although i think this should have been documented.

Cheers,
Julien