[regression] breaks static ipv6 setup

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

Binary package hint: network-manager

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
        pre-up modprobe ipv6
        up echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

iface eth0 inet6 static
        address 2001:41a8:604:ffff::2
        netmask 64
        gateway 2001:41a8:604:ffff::1

at boot time i can see ifup is bringing the interface up properly with ipv6.
As soon as NM starts, the interface is reconfigured and ipv6 is lost.

this is a regression from dapper/edgy.

Fabio

[Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)]

While this is unfortunate, IPv6 is not widespread enough that I think it's reasonable to treat this is as release critical at this point in the release.

[Luka Renko (lure)]

It would help if network-manager & network-manager-gnome could be removed w/o removing ubuntu-desktop. So changing it to Recomends in the feeds would help.
Note: this is already done for kubuntu-desktop and knetworkmanager - some HW is not supported by n-m and removal is the best fix.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

I wonder if this is just another case of bug #92299.