[pkg-wpa-devel] Proposal: Split the package
Felix Homann
fexpop at onlinehome.de
Tue Apr 11 13:54:29 UTC 2006
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 13:59, you wrote:
> I think this split causes unnecessary bloat of the debian dependency
> tree, and I'm quite sure that this would be rejected by our ftp-masters.
Sure, it would be much easier if the old init script would still ship with
wpasupplicant ;-)
> Anyway, you are suggesting something which I suggested in another form
> already on this list: Package a real roaming daemon/solution, which can
> control ifupdown, wpasupplicant and perhaps ifplugdown.
But as long as there isn't anything like that you should not break working
setups if not *really* necessary.
> How about a new package, lets call it wireless-roaming-daemon, which
> depends on wpasupplicant, guessnet and perhaps ifplugd, which installs
> an init script and provides an easy to use interface to the user to
> configure his locations?
Sure, that would be great.
> The initscript itself isn't a roaming solution at all.
Nobody said so.
> You can easily
> install it yourself,
Sure I can. But only after the upgrade broke my setup without necessity.
> and compared with the efford you have to take in
> integrating it with ifplugd and guessnet, this is the easiest task.
Which effort? All I had to do was add INTERFACES="wlan"
in /etc/default/ifplugd. (Actually I did this via "dpkg-reconfigure
ifplugd"). Integration with guessnet might be more complicated though.
> So IMO, you are complaining at the wrong place.
I don't think so. The upgrade breaks working setups. That's not really
necessary, hence it should not happen.
Regards,
Felix
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