Bug#365613: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#365613: Upgrading remote system makes it unmaintainable after reboot

[Kel Modderman]

Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Since this issue won't break the system, but 'only' the wireless network
> connection (which is grave enough in some cases), I really don't think
> that 'critical' is appropriate. But thats certainly subject to personal
> opinion. 
>
> I still think that this is kind of debconf abuse, but I don't find
> enough evidence to ground this. IMO, the user gets notified by
> apt-listchanges, because we stated this very clear in Debian.NEWS. So
> interested administrators would perhaps get this note twice, which seems
> to annoying to me. Moreover, I think Debian.NEWS is the correct place.
>
> Perhaps a more experienced maintainer can help here?
>
>   

Take a look at Md's maintainer scripts for udev, he uses "echo" for some 
important informational messages :-)

I agree with you Reinhard, that debconf would be overkill here (again I 
cannot substantiate that, but neither can I make an argument TO use it 
as the preferred warning mechanism). Leaving /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf 
intact if its been modified would go a long way to making the transition 
a bit smoother.

Thanks,Kel.