[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#856919: Bug#856919: network-manager: ignores high priority of wired connection

[Hendrik Tews]

Hi,

Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> writes:

> afaiu, the priority is used to decide which connection profile to use if
> there are multiple profiles available which could be applied for a given
> device. In your case the different profiles do not apply to the same
> devices, as they have differen types (type=wired, type=wifi)

If this is true, then there is at least a documentation problem,
because nm-settings(5) says

    If the connection is set to autoconnect, connections with higher
    priority will be preferred. Defaults to 0. The higher number
    means higher priority.

without any restriction to the same device.

Nevertheless it would be nice, if network-manager would use the
autoconnect-priority for all devices, because alternative
solutions are quite awkward.

Hendrik