[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#403316: complain on unknown ifupdown directives

[Eduard Bloch]

Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 0.5.5-4
Severity: normal

Hello,

I just hat to swear once again about wpa_supplicant. After consolidation
of my config some weeks ago I have kept "wpa-essid" directions there,
and I assumed that they are correct because nothing complained. However,
it does not work! wpa-ssid seems to be the correct one but that is not
obvious, and "essid" is the usual word for it, why should I look for
"ssid"?

IMO wpa_supplicant should either accept wpa-essid (since those who are
switching from WEP had wep-essid in the config, not wep-ssid, *sic*), or
complain about unknown options but not let the user puzzle over the
weird and unexplainable misbehaviour.

Eduard.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.19.1
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages wpasupplicant depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-19   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                   0.94-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libncurses5                   5.5-2      Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5                  5.2-1      GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                   0.9.8c-3   SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.1-12     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

Versions of packages wpasupplicant recommends:
ii  dhcp3-client                  3.0.4-10   DHCP Client

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