[pkg-wpa-devel] Proposal: Split the package

[Felix Homann]

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