[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#869795: network-manager-openvpn-gnome: can't specify route without gateway or use vpn_gateway

[Dennis van Dok]

Package: network-manager-openvpn-gnome
Version: 1.2.8-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I tried to configure openvpn through the Gnome dialogs. In the IPv4
tab adding a route cannot leave the gateway and metric fields empty,
although they have reasonable defaults and are not required in OpenVPN
per se.

I tried to import a configuration file that mentions a route with the
vpn_gateway setting and it showed an error message

"unsupported 3th argument vpn_gateway to "route" "

Manually editing the Network Manager file does work (leaving out
everything but the network range) and the VPN connection works fine,
but I cannot edit the connection through the dialog: it refuses to
save until I fill out the gateway and metric field.

The right thing to do for the dialog would be to accept empty fields
and let openvpn use defaults.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=nl_NL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages network-manager-openvpn-gnome depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0              2.22.0-1
ii  libc6                    2.24-11+deb9u1
ii  libcairo-gobject2        1.14.8-1
ii  libcairo2                1.14.8-1
ii  libdbus-1-3              1.10.18-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2         0.108-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0       2.36.5-2
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.50.3-2
ii  libgtk-3-0               3.22.11-1
ii  libnm-glib-vpn1          1.6.2-3
ii  libnm-glib4              1.6.2-3
ii  libnm-gtk0               1.4.4-1
ii  libnm-util2              1.6.2-3
ii  libnm0                   1.6.2-3
ii  libnma0                  1.4.4-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0           1.40.5-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0      1.40.5-1
ii  libsecret-1-0            0.18.5-3.1
ii  network-manager-openvpn  1.2.8-2

network-manager-openvpn-gnome recommends no packages.

network-manager-openvpn-gnome suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information