[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#591232: network-manager uninstall should not deactivate network

[Michel Briand]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.6-3
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

Hello,

network-manager removal script triggers network interfaces shutdown.

Since the apt-get process was launched through ssh, it hangs.

Hopefully, when logged in with the console, I were able to restart the
interfaces manually, and ssh recovered the connection, even if it took
me 2 min to do so ... !

(( Removing useless packages from a server (did a normal install), is
a somewhat normal task ... Because network-manager comes automatically
with gnome which comes from the normal install ... it's justified to
be able to remove it through a ssh session, isn't it ? ))

Regards

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (901, 'stable'), (900, 'stable'), (90, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR at euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.110            add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                    1.2.1-5+lenny1   simple interprocess messaging syst
pn  dhcdbd                  <none>           (no description available)
ii  hal                     0.5.11-8         Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown                0.6.8+nmu1       high level tools to configure netw
ii  iproute                 20080725-2       networking and traffic control too
pn  iputils-arping          <none>           (no description available)
ii  libc6                   2.7-18lenny4     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.2.1-5+lenny1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.84-1~bpo50+1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11             1.4.1-1          LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.22.4-1~bpo50+1 The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpg-error0           1.4-2            library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                 0.5.11-8         Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libiw29                 29-1.1           Wireless tools - library
pn  libnl1-pre6             <none>           (no description available)
pn  libnm-util0             <none>           (no description available)
ii  lsb-base                3.2-20           Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
pn  wpasupplicant           <none>           (no description available)

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

network-manager suggests no packages.