[Bug 997200] Re: [FFe] Add NetworkManager connectivity config package

[Jeremy Bicha]

** Description changed:

  Feature
  =======
  A separate network-manager-config-connectivity package that contains the 3-line config snippet to enable NetworkManager's connectivity check. This is the same approach taken by Fedora since 2014 (their package is named config-connectivity-fedora).
  
  jbicha would like to have ubuntu-gnome-desktop recommend this package for zesty. With this config, GNOME Shell will popup 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
  
  By making it a separate package, it is very easy for Ubuntu flavors to
  opt in to installing it by default if they choose. And it's very easy
  for users to opt in or out without needing to mess around with system
  configuration files.
  
  This new feature (and how to opt out) will be mentioned in Ubuntu
  GNOME'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 new discussion:
+ https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2017-February/039696.html
  
  Git merge proposal attached.
  
  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

** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => New

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