Debian Bug report logs - #841509
some types of devices should be ignored when forcing the online status

Package: network-manager; Maintainer for network-manager is Utopia Maintenance Team <pkg-utopia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>; Source for network-manager is src:network-manager (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Aron Xu <aron@debian.org>

Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 09:39:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Utopia Maintenance Team <pkg-utopia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>:
Bug#841509; Package network-manager. (Fri, 21 Oct 2016 09:39:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Aron Xu <aron@debian.org>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Utopia Maintenance Team <pkg-utopia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>. (Fri, 21 Oct 2016 09:39:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Package: network-manager
Severity: normal

In Force-online-state-with-unmanaged-devices.patch, status is forced
to online when there are unmanaged devices which status are up. This
would confuse users who have local bridges (for VMs, containers, etc)
while disconnected from real network (ethernet, wifi) because
nm-applet shows an ethernet connected icon.

Shall we improve the patch by excluding some types of devices like
bridges, infiniband? Or can we drop this patch completely?

Cheers,
Aron

Reply sent to Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>:
You have taken responsibility. (Sun, 13 Nov 2016 17:21:08 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Notification sent to Aron Xu <aron@debian.org>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (Sun, 13 Nov 2016 17:21:08 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message #10 received at 841509-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

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Am 21.10.2016 um 11:34 schrieb Aron Xu:
> Package: network-manager
> Severity: normal
> 
> In Force-online-state-with-unmanaged-devices.patch, status is forced
> to online when there are unmanaged devices which status are up. This
> would confuse users who have local bridges (for VMs, containers, etc)
> while disconnected from real network (ethernet, wifi) because
> nm-applet shows an ethernet connected icon.
> 
> Shall we improve the patch by excluding some types of devices like
> bridges, infiniband? Or can we drop this patch completely?

I don't think so. It's better to err on the safe side, and signal online
state (even if we don't really have it) and let applications fail to
connect then to signal offline state and applications not even trying to
connect as a consequence.

Regards,
Michael


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Debian Bug report logs - #841509 some types of devices should be ignored when forcing the online status

Debian Bug report logs - #841509
some types of devices should be ignored when forcing the online status