[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#444874: network-manager-openvpn: default gateway changed to tun0 without request

[Wolfgang Schulze-Zachau]

Package: network-manager-openvpn
Version: 0.8.1-1
Severity: normal


This very same issue still exists in the current version of this package in squeeze.
When the openvpn connection is started via a shell script, all routing is applied as it
should be, and the default gateway remains unchanged.
When the same connection is started via network-manager, the default gateway is changed 
by nm, and that is ***BAD***, since it breaks the user's access to the Internet.
This renders the openvpn plugin effectively useless, as no combination of options 
changes this behaviour.

For now I will revert back to using shell scripts.
Since this bug has not seen any updates or even acknowledgement from the package 
maintainers, I wonder whether this will get any attention at all?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager-openvpn depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.11.2-10         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.24-4+squeeze1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.88-2.1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.24.2-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libnm-glib-vpn1        0.8.1-6+squeeze1  network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-glib2            0.8.1-6+squeeze1  network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1            0.8.1-6+squeeze1  network management framework (shar
ii  openvpn                2.1.3-2           virtual private network daemon

network-manager-openvpn recommends no packages.

network-manager-openvpn suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-openvpn-service.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information