Bug#363347: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#363347: ifdown doesn't work correctly when using wpacli-action-dhclient script

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:37:16PM +0200, Felix Homann wrote:
> > >> I cannot see that an important bug be brought up against a example only
> > >> script, also we cannot introduce the added depends of iproute,
> > >> especially if it is only required for an example only script, imo.
> 
> Although the script lies in the examples directory the README clearly suggests 
> using it. That's why I thought the severity to be adequate. If it really felt 
> like an example-only I would have made it a wishlist or minor bug, if it had 
> been the real default configuration an even higher severity would have been 
> appropriate.

There is no default configuration (anymore), because we cannot provide
one. At least not in the 'base' package.

If we expected that file to be useful for the majority of wpasupplicant
users, we would have put it to /etc and marked it conffile, so that we
got conffile handling from dpkg. We intentionally decided against this
but to keep the example, well, a 'simple' example.

> > >> Should the method describing the use of action scripts no longer
> > >> be suggested as a mode of operation?
> > >
> > > Well, I think we should still do that. 
> 
> Yes, don't skip support for action scripts, but don't suggest using
> them for roaming. You should give other useful examples, e.g.you can
> use an action script to put KMail in offline mode on DISCONNECT. Are
> you interested in such an example?

Sure, just submit them as wishlist bugs, and we can include them in the
next upload.

> > > I think we mentioned several times, that the examples are only
> > > able to show how things can work in simple cases. 
> 
> I can't find it mentioned in the README.

Ok, then I'll see what can be done to make this more obvious.

Gruesse,
	Reinhard