[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#981747: network-manager: NetworkManager does not start in sysvinit system

[Luis MB]

Package: network-manager
Version: 1.28.0-2+b1
Followup-For: Bug #981747
X-Debbugs-Cc: luismb at mailnesia.com

> Hi,
>
> If you install the "orphan-sysvinit-scripts" package, that contains an init
script for (among other things) network-manager.
>
> HTH,
> Matthew

Is this actually the case? I can't find documentation on this anywhere on
NetworkManager's page, nor can I find a page listing such orphaned scripts in
the Debian wiki, nor can I find the required path (/etc/init.d/network-manager)
listed in packages.debian.org [1].

[1]
https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=bullseye&arch=any&mode=path&searchon=contents&keywords=network-
manager

(also the same for buster)


Furthermore, wouldn't installing a single package with all orphaned scripts
make a lot of scripts available for packages that are not there?

I feel like, as the person responsible for (intentionally and unapologetically)
breaking the behaviour of the package, Michael Biebl could have documented this
better and more officially. Or simply *not* have broken the behaviour of the
package.

I'd like to refute the degradationof the package severity to Wishlist and
request that it be uplifted to at least "grave" or "important". Alternatively
I'd like an official wording on whether Debian developers are allowed to
intentionally break the behaviour of packages in a sysvinit system *and*
intentionally and continually refuse a fix or a patch.





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

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=es_CL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_CL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=es_CL:es
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                    3.118
ii  dbus                       1.12.20-1
ii  eudev [udev]               232:3.2.7.3
ii  libaudit1                  1:2.8.5-3.1
ii  libbluetooth3              5.55-1
ii  libc6                      2.31-5
ii  libcurl3-gnutls            7.72.0-1
ii  libelogind0 [libsystemd0]  246.9.1-1+debian1
ii  libeudev1 [libudev1]       232:3.2.7.3
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.66.4-1
ii  libgnutls30                3.7.0-5
ii  libjansson4                2.13.1-1
ii  libmm-glib0                1.14.8-0.1
ii  libndp0                    1.6-1+b1
ii  libnewt0.52                0.52.21-4+b2
ii  libnm0                     1.28.0-2+b1
ii  libpsl5                    0.21.0-1.1
ii  libreadline8               8.1~rc3-1
ii  libselinux1                3.1-2+b1
ii  libteamdctl0               1.31-1
ii  libuuid1                   2.36.1-1
ii  policykit-1                0.105-25.0nosystemd2
ii  wpasupplicant              2:2.9.0-15

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
pn  dnsmasq-base                            <none>
ii  iptables                                1.8.6-1
ii  libpam-elogind-compat [libpam-systemd]  1.3
pn  modemmanager                            <none>
ii  ppp                                     2.4.9-1+1
ii  wireless-regdb                          2020.04.29-2

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  isc-dhcp-client  4.4.1-2.1+b2
pn  libteam-utils    <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information