[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#444874: nm-openvpn changes gateway unasked

[Wouter Verhelst]

Package: network-manager-openvpn
Followup-For: Bug #444874

Hi,

I notice that the GNOME UI for this package now includes an option "Use
this connection for sources on their network only" (translated from
Dutch, sorry), which if enabled removes the default route, but is not
enabled by default, not even when importing an OpenVPN configuration
file that does not have the "redirect-gateway" option set, as I would
expect.

However, it still adds a static route, using the default gateway, to the
OpenVPN server. If the OpenVPN server is not available over the default
gateway but only over another network, then this breaks the connection,
and that cannot be fixed using the GUI.

I filed an upstream bug report about this at
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/issues/204

Regards,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, riscv64, armhf

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=nl_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages network-manager-openvpn depends on:
ii  adduser          3.118
ii  libc6            2.28-10
ii  libglib2.0-0     2.58.3-2
ii  libnm0           1.14.6-2
ii  network-manager  1.14.6-2
ii  openvpn          2.4.7-1

network-manager-openvpn recommends no packages.

network-manager-openvpn suggests no packages.

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