[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#612424: network-manager: Continuously updates /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/*

[Colomban Wendling]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.8.2-5
Severity: normal

Since upgrade from 0.8.1-6 to 0.8.2-5, NM updates the timestamp setting
of system connections continuously (well, from time to time, but still).

This is a major usability problem when combined with EtcKeeper.
Moreover, simply making EtcKeeper ignore these files isn't a good
solution since they also contains useful informations (system
interfaces managed by NM).

So, please save this timestamp information somewhere else if possible.

NOTE:
The "modified" configuration file below
(/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf) hasn't be modified by me but
by successive upgrades. It was created when upgrading from 0.8.1-1 to
0.8.1-2 (August 6th, 2010) and slightly modified during last update
from 0.8.1-6 to 0.8.2-5 (adding the no-auto-default= line).

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.112+nmu2  add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                         1.4.1-2     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  isc-dhcp-client              4.1.1-P1-15 ISC DHCP client
ii  libc6                        2.11.2-11   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.4.1-2     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.88-2.1    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                  1.4.5-2     LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.24.2-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26                  2.10.4-2    the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgudev-1.0-0               164-4       GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libnl1                       1.1-6       library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib2                  0.8.2-5     network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1                  0.8.2-5     network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0        0.96-4      PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libuuid1                     2.17.2-9    Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-27      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                         164-4       /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  wpasupplicant                0.6.10-2.1  client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmas 2.55-2                            A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii  iptabl 1.4.10-1                          administration tools for packet fi
ii  modemm 0.4+git.20100624t180933.6e79d15-2 D-Bus service for managing modems
ii  policy 0.96-4                            framework for managing administrat
ii  ppp    2.4.5-5                           Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd                 <none>     (no description available)

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed:
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
no-auto-default=<a MAC address>,
[ifupdown]
managed=false


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