[Bug 997200] Re: Add NetworkManager connectivity config package

[Jeremy Bicha]

I'm closing the artful task for update-manager. If update-manager needs
more work to support the connectivity status, I think that should be
split off to a new bug.

** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu Artful)
       Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix

** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu Artful)
    Milestone: quantal-updates => None

** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

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Title:
  Add NetworkManager connectivity config package

Status in NetworkManager:
  Confirmed
Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in network-manager source package in Precise:
  Won't Fix
Status in ubuntu-meta source package in Precise:
  Won't Fix
Status in update-manager source package in Precise:
  Won't Fix
Status in network-manager source package in Artful:
  Fix Released
Status in ubuntu-meta source package in Artful:
  Fix Released
Status in update-manager source package in Artful:
  Won't Fix
Status in network-manager package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  How to Disable This Feature
  ===========================
  Option 1
  --------
  If you are using the default Ubuntu or GNOME, open the Settings app, browse to Privacy and turn off Network Connectivity Checking.

  Option 2
  --------
  You could also disable it by adding a file to /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/
  with this content:
  [connectivity]
  enabled=false

  Then restart NetworkManager or your computer, whichever is easier.

  Feature
  =======
  A separate network-manager-config-connectivity-ubuntu package that contains the 2-line config snippet to enable NetworkManager's connectivity check. This is the same approach taken by Fedora since 2014 (their package is named network-manager-config-connectivity-fedora).

  With this config, GNOME Shell will pop up a browser page when a captive portal is detected. The browser page is powered by webkit2gtk.
  https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.14/#captive-portals

  This new feature (and how to opt out) will be mentioned in Ubuntu
  17.10's Release Notes.

  Enabling the connectivity check by default for all of Ubuntu was discussed almost 5 years ago:
  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-July/035490.html

  Link to newer discussion:
  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2017-February/039696.html

  Original Bug Report
  ==================
  When in a hotel there is a often a T&Cs page that is delivered when connecting to the network.  Some combination of network manager and update manager (or something else entirely) doesn't seem to be able to handle this, and update are left in a non-working state after not being able to read package headers file.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: network-manager 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed May  9 17:27:02 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  IpRoute:
   default via 10.155.32.1 dev wlan0  proto static
   10.155.32.0/19 dev wlan0  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.155.38.82  metric 2
   169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0  scope link  metric 1000
  NetworkManager.state:
   [main]
   NetworkingEnabled=true
   WirelessEnabled=true
   WWANEnabled=true
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: network-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-07 (63 days ago)
  nmcli-dev:
   DEVICE     TYPE              STATE         DBUS-PATH
   wlan0      802-11-wireless   connected     /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1
   eth0       802-3-ethernet    unavailable   /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
  nmcli-nm:
   RUNNING         VERSION    STATE           NET-ENABLED   WIFI-HARDWARE   WIFI       WWAN-HARDWARE   WWAN
   running         0.9.4.0    connected       enabled       enabled         enabled    enabled         disabled

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