dear Martin,

On Sun, 29 Mar 2015, Martin Steigerwald wrote:

> Bug#761658: Please do not default to using Google nameservers

tl;dr - isn't there a preseed directive to change the default?!

> Marco tagged it as "wontfix". Seriously, if I didn´t configure a
> nameserver I *mean* it. I don´t want it to just choose a Google nameserver
> then, without even telling me.

you are right in pointing this out. Also the /etc/resolv.conf situation
is really sub-optimal as it is already in Wheezy, let me explain: I can
understand the advantages of /etc/network/interfaces, but I would expect
at least one of the manpages indicated in the generated file notice to
detail how to deactivate this behavior and have /etc/resolv.conf
generated by hand or another script.

Almost a pattern? Once again, no planned way to opt-out from complexity.

Adding to the discourse on the general posture and even principles
Devuan should stand for: I wish we can formulate that if in Devuan or
even in what we inherited from Debian are default wrappers on top of
base file, there must be always an easy way to switch them off and
circumvent them. This should be the case also with grub and other
similar clusterf*.

Back to your problem, at the very least there should be a way to
deactivate default DNS configuration and simply have *no dns configured*
This way there could be whatever pre-seed script to set a default even
if there is no default-DNS specific directive.

ciao