[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#360387: Lowering severity (was: reopening)

[Felix Homann]

On Thursday 13 April 2006 10:14, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> It just confuses new users of wpasupplicant for no real benefit.

I think the current state of the package causes much more confusion. By 
deprecating the init script approach you somehow imply that the new system is 
capable of doing what the old style did. It simply isn't. The new 
configuration scheme pretends to be a proper replacement of the old style. It 
isn't. 

The effect is that people (like me) try to follow you into the "new world", 
give it numerous tries just to see that it's not what you thought it would 
be...

> Please look at the archives of this list, I outlined that we could move
> this kind of setup (wpasupplicant+ifupdown+guessnet+configuration) into
> a package on it's own. Why not helping me on this rather than bitching
> about broken upgrade paths to nirvana or bug severities?


Why not do one step after the other? _First_ create a new package and _then_ 
drop the init script. I don't insist on keeping the script in wpasupplicant 
forever. I've personally got my system running. I just want to avoid upgrade 
trouble for others now.

Imagine a system whose only network interface is a wireless one. It's kept up 
by an init script + ifplugd solution. After upgrade the setup is broken. Then 
you read to install the 
(wpasupplicant+ifupdown+guessnet+configuration)-package...without working 
network? Hmmm.

Please, please, please: Remove the script only after a real solution for 
upgrades has been worked out. 

Kind regards,

Felix