Bug#511636: add comment to /etc/network/interfaces that any custom rule will deactivate network-manager

[Sascha Silbe]

So please mention this possible breakage in /etc/network/interfaces.

/etc/network/interfaces is not a place for documentation, README.Debian is though.

So how about mentioning it in interfaces(5)?

Besides, it would require to mangle an existing /etc/network/interfaces file in

postinst, which sounds scary at best.

I thought more about newly installed systems than upgrading ones. The latter could be warned by an entry in the Release Notes instead. Wouldn't want my /etc/network/interfaces to be touched by a postinst script.

A better way is, to get a fix for [1].

Of course that's the better way. It's just not going to happen for lenny, if at all (upstream seems quite reluctant).

CU Sascha

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