[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1006696: network-manager-openvpn: No warning to the user when some elements from the .ovpn cannot be imported

[Jonas Andradas]

Package: network-manager-openvpn
Version: 1.8.16-1
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: jonas at alternativaslibres.es

Dear Maintainer,

When importing .ovpn files into network manager, there is no warning or message
whatsoever to the user that some of the elements could not be imported. It
would be desired that, either on the GUI or when using nmcli, if any of the
settings on the .ovpn file are not (or cannot) be imported, these are listed or
at least a warning is shown indicating to the user that they might need to take
additional steps to have their connection behave (or work) on Network Manager
in a similar manner as what they would expect if they were using openvpn
connection.ovpn on the command line.

One obvious example of this could be when the .ovpn file contains "up" or
"down" scripts or commands. Probably some users would like something to be
automagically added into /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d, but since this could
be problematic or hard to do (without taking into account other scripts already
there, or which name will the tun/tap interface will have, etc.), maybe just
showing a message to the user indicating something along the lines of: "Up/Down
scripts in the .ovpn file could not be imported automatically. Please consider
using a script under /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d as necessary (with
reference to the documentation or NetworkManager-dispatcher manpage)"

This issue could be considered somewhat related to issue #818147. However,
since what is being requested is different, I preferred to open a separate
issue on the bug tracker.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers stable-security
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages network-manager-openvpn depends on:
ii  adduser          3.118
ii  libc6            2.33-7
ii  libglib2.0-0     2.70.4-1
ii  libnm0           1.36.0-1
ii  network-manager  1.36.0-1
ii  openvpn          2.5.5-1

network-manager-openvpn recommends no packages.

network-manager-openvpn suggests no packages.

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