[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#677993: Bug#677993: wpa_cli: Can no longer clear screen

[Ben Armstrong]

On 18/06/12 08:46 PM, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> I'm lowering the severity to minor, because in my opinion this
> doesn't impose a significant impact on wpa_cli's usability.

Sure. As a workaround, I'll just press and hold the enter key
periodically. A bit ugly, but serves the same function.

> This is caused by switching wpa_cli to the new (since 1.0~)
> internal readline replacement, which might not have all the bells
> and whistles GNU readline has to offer, yet(?).

I saw that in the changelog and figured that was it.

> You can confirm this by rebuilding wpa with this patch:

Thanks. If it really gets irritating, I might, but I'll give the
readline replacement a chance first ...

> So far this seems to be the only side effect

Well, perhaps not the only one (will file a separate bug about that
though :)

> of switching to WPA_CLI_EDIT (personally I didn't even notice that
> yet), and abandoning readline usage is wanted for licensing reasons
> (especially looking at the wpa 2.x branch and readline6/ GPL-3).

Ah. All very reasonable.

> With a little luck, this feature may get added to future upstream
> versions, as there seems to be some rudimentary ctrl-L handling
> already. In which case we'd consider backporting it to wpa -
> although likely not for wheezy.

Sure. Looking forward to that.

> As we want/ need to avoid depending on GNU readline, I may tag this
> bug as wontfix for the time being. Although I certainly hope that
> wpa_cli's internal readline implementation gains feature parity
> with GNU readline in the externally visible regards.

Would be nice. Now to go file that bug I mentioned ...

Ben