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

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

On Mi, 2006-05-03 at 09:05 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> We are talking here only about the cornercase of some random custom
> scripts, which start wpa_supplicant using /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.

Oh, sorry, I thought you decided to leave people's setup in a working
state for all users, including corner cases. But you are right, if you
want to break /etc/init.d/wpasupplicant use but not other ways of
using /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf, you should only leave the conf file in
place and remove the rest of the user's working setup.

> You mean we should leave 'zombie' files around on the filesystem on
> package upgrades? Wouldn't that violate Policy?

Hmm, right, in this case these should still be owned by the package as
before, just not active on new installations, e.g.by
a /etc/default/wpasupplicant file. But I guess this has been discussed
already...

Greetings,
Joachim