[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#673587: Never mind...

[Edmund Biow]

I watched carefully what another testing machine was installing when I 
did a dist-upgrade and it included the package ifupdown.  So I went back 
to the two machines that I had to enable NM for and it turned out that 
neither of them had the package. They must have been stripped out my my 
routine dist-upgrade. I'm used to seeing old programs go away, so I 
didn't notice that one.  I guess yesterday for some reason apt was 
feeling grumpy and didn't upgrade those packages, but instead removed 
them, very unpleasant.  In my ignorance I blamed network-manager, a 
perfectly fine program, though one I don't need on a desktop machine. I 
was able to install the 0.7~rc3 of ifupdown, re-disable network-manager, 
and re-enable static IP addresses in my /etc/network/interfaces and 
remove the cronjob and everything is back to normal (well, except for my 
blood pressure and several wasted hours). Maybe this aborted bug report 
will spare someone else my ordeal.