SRU validation on Mantic netplan.io installed is 0.107-5ubuntu0.1 --- root@mantic:~# dpkg --list | grep netplan ii libnetplan0:amd64 0.107-5ubuntu0.1 amd64 YAML network configuration abstraction runtime library ii netplan-generator 0.107-5ubuntu0.1 amd64 YAML network configuration abstraction systemd-generator ii netplan.io 0.107-5ubuntu0.1 amd64 YAML network configuration abstraction for various backends ii python3-netplan 0.107-5ubuntu0.1 amd64 YAML network configuration abstraction Python bindings --- After adding the reproducer from the description, netplan will fail to generate configuration: cat > /etc/netplan/10-config.yaml </etc/apt/preferences.d/proposed-updates Package: src:netplan.io Pin: release a=$(lsb_release -cs)-proposed Pin-Priority: 501 EOF echo "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic-proposed main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list apt update apt upgrade --- root@mantic:~# dpkg --list | grep netplan ii libnetplan0:amd64 0.107-5ubuntu0.2 amd64 YAML network configuration abstraction runtime library ii netplan-generator 0.107-5ubuntu0.2 amd64 YAML network configuration abstraction systemd-generator ii netplan.io 0.107-5ubuntu0.2 amd64 YAML network configuration abstraction for various backends ii python3-netplan 0.107-5ubuntu0.2 amd64 YAML network configuration abstraction Python bindings --- Check that netplan generate and nmcli will work fine --- root@mantic:~# netplan generate root@mantic:~# nmcli con add type dummy ifname dummy0 Connection 'dummy-dummy0' (2c97024c-35d3-4f2d-932c-33baccae43fb) successfully added. root@mantic:~# nmcli con show NAME UUID TYPE DEVICE dummy-dummy0 f0acce7d-02ec-4e9e-93fd-d8669a2cb3d8 dummy -- ---