Comment 8 for bug 847782

Surely the alternative to adding an 'auto' line is that the interface won't automatically be brought up on the first reboot after installation? Without NetworkManager, I think it's more likely that the same interface is going to be in use before and after installation.

With NetworkManager, the installer *already* calls /usr/lib/NetworkManager/ifblacklist_migrate.sh, which is supposed to disable 'auto' lines in favour of NM. Thus, I think Clint's comment #3 is based on some mistaken assumptions, or else is mistakenly ascribing a network-manager bug to d-i.

I'm more than happy for this bug to remain open for discussion, but I don't think simply removing the 'auto' line is the solution, nor do I think that simply punting and asking the user what to do is a good approach; and I'm going to mark this Won't Fix for oneiric as we could easily do more harm than good by changing behaviour at this late stage. I rather suspect that fixing this in a way that makes everyone happy will require changes outside the installer; having to predict what reality will be at some later point in the installer never works well.