[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#923159: network-manager: This package is abondoned! Please remove network-manager from Debian!

[Svjatoslav Agejenko]

Package: network-manager
Version: 1.14.4-4
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Existing bug list is scary. Hundreds of open bug reports
for this package in status "pending" for many years!
This package is clearly unmaintained.

This package is also default network manager at least
when you install popular Gnome desktop environment.

I myself got screwed today by Network Manager.
Problem and workaround is reported years ago here:


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https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=839605
The workaround provided works for me:

/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
[device-mac-randomization]
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no
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Now years and major Debian releases later the same
issue is still unfixed and actively causes troubles
to people. I'm lucky I had cable internet and found
that workaround.


This open buglist is not ok!

Keeping that half baked MAC randomization feature in
Network Manager on by default is not ok!

Keeping this unmaintained Network Manager as part
of Debian and even as default is not ok!


When people lose interest or cannot afford time to maintain
package, it SHOULD be removed until it meets necessary
quality treshold again.



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

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.118
it  dbus                   1.12.12-1
ii  init-system-helpers    1.56+nmu1
ii  libaudit1              1:2.8.4-2
ii  libbluetooth3          5.50-1
ii  libc6                  2.28-7
ii  libcurl3-gnutls        7.64.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.58.3-1
ii  libgnutls30            3.6.6-2
ii  libjansson4            2.12-1
ii  libmm-glib0            1.10.0-1
ii  libndp0                1.6-1+b1
ii  libnewt0.52            0.52.20-8
ii  libnm0                 1.14.4-4
ii  libpam-systemd         240-6
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0    0.105-25
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-25
ii  libpsl5                0.20.2-2
ii  libreadline7           7.0-5
ii  libselinux1            2.8-1+b1
ii  libsystemd0            240-6
ii  libteamdctl0           1.28-1
ii  libudev1               240-6
ii  libuuid1               2.33.1-0.1
ii  lsb-base               10.2018112800
ii  policykit-1            0.105-25
ii  udev                   240-6
ii  wpasupplicant          2:2.6-21

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda                         3.18-1
ii  dnsmasq-base [dnsmasq-base]  2.80-1
ii  iptables                     1.8.2-3
ii  isc-dhcp-client              4.4.1-2
ii  modemmanager                 1.10.0-1
ii  ppp                          2.4.7-2+4

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

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed:
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
[ifupdown]
managed=false
[device-mac-randomization]
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no


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