[pkg-wpa-devel] Changes in 0.4.8-0ubuntu4

[Kel Modderman]

Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> yesterday, I had a rather long /query on irc with Scott James Remnant
> about the wapsupplicant package. While he wasn't interested in the
> package on the debian side, he spotted some issues, which he insisted
> that must be fixed in ubuntu. I incorporated all of these Changes to our
> trunk/ and intend to upload that to dapper as soon as flight6, the next
> ubuntu preview, is release.
>
> The Changes are in detail:
>
> - fixes in the maintainer scripts. This is probably the most important
>   ones, he rewrote the maintainer scripts so that we get safely rid of
>   all former conffiles
>   

Looks excellent.

> - moved /etc/wpa_supplicant/ifupdown.d/wpasupplicant to
>   /etc/wpa_supplicant/ifupdown.sh. There isn't too much point in having
>   a '.d' directory, because that directory isn't automatically sourced
>   by any of our scripts. It would only confuse users that try to drop 
>   random scripts in there. Kel said that he thought about adding other 
>   scripts, but unless all files in that directory are sourced
>   automatically, we really shouldn't name it a '.d' directory, for the 
>   sake of consistency with the other '.d's directories.
>   

That is fine with me. I was unsure where to drop them in the first place.

> - removal of the symlinks. Yes, this will break perhaps some scripts,
>   but if we don't, other packages won't be fixed, because bugs won't be
>   noticed. So he insisted in having the compatibility symlinks dropped
>   in ubuntu. 
>   

No problems.
> - wpa-conf has a slight different semantics now. Now, you don't need to
>   put a 'wpa-conf managed' in the /e/n/i, any 'wpa-' stanza is
>   sufficient to make our magic happen. 'wpa-conf' in now only used to 
>   specify an custom wpasupplicant.conf.
>
>   I agree with Scott on this point. Making wpa-conf required makes it an
>   option do 'make magic things happen'. We don't really need our users
>   to put this option. If they put wpa-* options there, we detect that in
>   the environment of our script, and we'll start wpasupplicant.
>   

I really like this idea too, thanks!
> I think all these changes are reasonable, so I checked it into trunk. We
> can surely discuss on point or the other, if someone has objections, but
> I'd really like to see trunk/ uploaded to unstable this weekend, because
> the pkg-utopia people are waiting for us.
>
> Gruesse,
> 	Reinhard
>
>   

Let them wait no longer :-)

Thanks, Kel.