[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#751594: network-manager: dnsmasq incompatible with network manager and systemd

[Vincent Bernat]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.8.10-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Using dnsmasq with network manager (by using dns=dnsmasq in
configuraiton file) is currently not possible if systemd is
enabled. dnsmasq ships a systemd unit file with DBus activation. It
also ships as being able to solve "$named" dependency.

When starting network manager, systemd also starts dnsmasq. Hence,
network manager cannot start dnsmasq.

Ubuntu ships a patch for network manager to use dnsmasq dbus interface
instead of running dnsmasq. This could be a good idea to have that in
Debian too. I don't know why this is not done upstream.

Use of dnsmasq is quite useful for split horizon DNS.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.15-rc8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  dbus                   1.8.4-1
ii  init-system-helpers    1.18
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.3.0+dfsg-1
ii  libc6                  2.19-1
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.8.4-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.102-1
ii  libgcrypt11            1.5.3-4
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.40.0-3
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.23-16
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         204-10
ii  libmm-glib0            1.0.0-5
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.24-2
ii  libnl-genl-3-200       3.2.24-2
ii  libnl-route-3-200      3.2.24-2
ii  libnm-glib4            0.9.8.10-3
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.8.10-3
ii  libpam-systemd         208-1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-6
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.46.0-2
ii  libsystemd-daemon0     208-1
ii  libsystemd-login0      208-1
ii  libuuid1               2.20.1-5.8
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian13
ii  policykit-1            0.105-6
ii  udev                   208-1
ii  wpasupplicant          1.1-1

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda          1.1.2-1
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.71-1
ii  iptables      1.4.21-2
ii  modemmanager  1.0.0-5
ii  ppp           2.4.6-2

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  avahi-autoipd  0.6.31-4

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed:
[main]
dns=dnsmasq
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
[ifupdown]
managed=false


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