[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#640349: network-manager: Set IPv6 to "auto" by default

[Anton Martchukov]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.8.4.0-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch ipv6

Is there a reason why IPv6 is ignored by default? This makes problem for
new wirless connections where if used by gnome applet you should connect
once, then change IPv6 settings from "ignore" to "auto" and reconnect.

Is not very convenient and is not ok for IPv6 goal at all. I suggest
that IPv6 should be set to "auto" on all new connections by default.

Please check corresponding patch lp761558_default_ip6_setting_auto.patch
in Ubuntu:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/761558
http://patches.ubuntu.com/n/network-manager/network-manager_0.9.0-0ubuntu2.patch

I think we need to incorporate it in Debian too.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.113       add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                         1.4.14-1    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  isc-dhcp-client              4.1.1-P1-17 ISC DHCP client
ii  libc6                        2.13-16     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.4.14-1    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.94-4      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                  1.4.6-9     LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.28.6-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26                  2.12.7-8    GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgudev-1.0-0               172-1       GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libnl1                       1.1-7       library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib2                  0.8.4.0-2   network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1                  0.8.4.0-2   network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0        0.102-1     PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libuuid1                     2.19.1-5    Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-27      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                         172-1       /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  wpasupplicant                0.7.3-3     client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmasq-base                  2.57-1     A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii  iptables                      1.4.12-1   administration tools for packet fi
ii  modemmanager                  0.5-1      D-Bus service for managing modems
ii  policykit-1                   0.102-1    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=f0:de:f1:56:53:26,
[ifupdown]
managed=false


-- no debconf information