[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#360387: Lowering severity

[Kel Modderman]

Felix Homann wrote:
> 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. 
>   

And the old system is not capable of doing what the new system is.

Where was all this documentation to do with wpa_sup, unplugged and 
guessnet/zeroconf when I first installed this package? Maybe then I 
would not have written a replacement framework for wpasupplicant.

By all means, criticise the removal of the init script as much as you 
want, but please do not start bagging the ifupdown mechanism without 
factual evidence of brokenness/shortcomings.

Thanks, Kel.