[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#848594: network-manager: NM starts after apt upgrade despite bein disabled by systemctl

[Jason Woofenden]

Package: network-manager
Version: 1.4.2-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Background: I couldn't get NM to reconnect automatically, or even
manually in some cases, so I disabled it with ``systemctl disable``
and I call wpa_supplicant and dhclient manually.

network-manager does not start automatically on boot anymore.

When I updated my system with aptitude (last month), and it
upgraded the network-manager package, my internet connection died,
because the package upgrade started network-manager (and presumably
that conflicted with my wpa_supplicant I already had running.)

I'm writing this bug because I think that package upgrades should
not start daemons that have been explicitly disabled by the
sysadmin.

My apologies if there is some additional way I'm supposed to
indicate that I don't want network-manager running.

Thanks!

-- 
Jason


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

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.115
ii  dbus                   1.10.14-1
ii  init-system-helpers    1.46
ii  libaudit1              1:2.6.7-1
ii  libbluetooth3          5.43-1
ii  libc6                  2.24-8
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.50.2-2
ii  libgnutls30            3.5.7-2
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         230-3
ii  libmm-glib0            1.6.4-1
ii  libndp0                1.6-1
ii  libnewt0.52            0.52.19-1
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.27-1
ii  libnm0                 1.4.2-3
ii  libpam-systemd         232-7
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0    0.105-17
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-17
ii  libreadline7           7.0-1
ii  libselinux1            2.6-3
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.56.0-1
ii  libsystemd0            232-7
ii  libteamdctl0           1.26-1
ii  libuuid1               2.29-1
ii  lsb-base               9.20161125
ii  policykit-1            0.105-17
ii  udev                   232-7
ii  wpasupplicant          2.5-2+v2.4-3+b1

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda             3.13-1+b2
ii  dnsmasq-base     2.76-4.1
ii  iptables         1.6.0+snapshot20161117-4
pn  iputils-arping   <none>
ii  isc-dhcp-client  4.3.5~b1-1
ii  modemmanager     1.6.4-1
ii  ppp              2.4.7-1+4

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  libteam-utils  <none>

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