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: ---------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------- 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 -- no debconf information