[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#651053: Don't prefer random DHCP hostname over system hostname

[Jeroen Dekkers]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.2.0-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch

NetworkManager keeps changing my hostname when I connect to a wireless
network. I'm a bit puzzled why NetworkManager gives a higher priority
to the name that a dhcp server on a random wireless network returns
than the hostname configured by the user in /etc/hostname. In my
opinion NetworkManager shouldn't overrule configuration done by the
user and in Debian the hostname is already set by
/etc/init.d/hostname.sh. It causes a lot of trouble, from annoying
change of your shell prompts to errors because your hostname isn't
resolvable.

The attached patch changes the order of preference, so that an already
set hostname takes precedence over a hostname from DHCP.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113      
ii  dbus                   1.4.16-1   
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.1.1-P1-17
ii  libc6                  2.13-21    
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.4.16-1   
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.98-1     
ii  libgcrypt11            1.5.0-3    
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.30.2-4   
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.14-3  
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         175-2      
ii  libnl1                 1.1-7      
ii  libnm-glib4            0.9.2.0-1  
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.2.0-1  
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.102-2    
ii  libuuid1               2.19.1-5   
ii  lsb-base               3.2-28     
ii  udev                   175-2      
ii  wpasupplicant          0.7.3-5    

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.59-2  
ii  iptables      1.4.12-1
ii  modemmanager  0.5-1   
ii  policykit-1   0.102-2 
ii  ppp           2.4.5-5 

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  avahi-autoipd  0.6.30-5

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf changed [not included]
(Only contents is the MAC address of the wired interface)

-- no debconf information
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