[Vmware-package-maintainers] Bug#455793: vmware-package: Add debconf dialogs to choose the network addresses of host-only networks vmnet1 and vmnet8

[Max Dmitrichenko]

Package: vmware-package
Version: 0.20
Severity: normal

The network addresses of vmnet1 and vmnet8 are hardcoded to be 192.168.1.0/24 and 192.168.8.0/24 correspondingly.
The former is a very often used value so making it default is a very bad. Personaly I sent about an hour to
find out why all the computers on my LAN became unpingable. This happend because 192.168.1.0/24 was set
on both interfaces: eth0 and vmnet1. I was neither asked whether I agree with this nor warned about this.
At least debconf warning message should be shown to the user.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages vmware-package depends on:
ii  bzip2                  1.0.3-6           high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  debhelper              5.0.61~dmitrmax.1 helper programs for debian/rules
ii  dpkg-dev               1.13.25           package building tools for Debian
ii  fakeroot               1.5.10            Gives a fake root environment
ii  file                   4.17-5etch3       Determines file type using "magic"
ii  make                   3.81-2            The GNU version of the "make" util
ii  module-assistant       0.10.8            tool to make module package creati
ii  prelink                0.0.20061027-1    ELF prelinking utility to speed up
ii  python                 2.4.4-2           An interactive high-level object-o

Versions of packages vmware-package recommends:
ii  ia32-libs                 1.19           ia32 shared libraries for use on a
pn  ia32-libs-gtk             <none>         (no description available)
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.17-1       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.12.4-3       The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbz2-1.0                1.0.3-6        high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libcairo2                 1.2.4-4        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
pn  libcairomm-1.0-1          <none>         (no description available)
pn  libcroco3                 <none>         (no description available)
ii  libexpat1                 1.95.8-3.4     XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libfontconfig1            2.4.2-1.2      generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6              2.2.1-5+etch1  FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
pn  libglade2-0               <none>         (no description available)
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.12.4-2       The GLib library of C routines
pn  libglibmm-2.4-1c2a        <none>         (no description available)
pn  libgnomecanvas2-0         <none>         (no description available)
pn  libgnomecanvasmm-2.6-1c2a <none>         (no description available)
pn  libgsf-1-114              <none>         (no description available)
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.8.20-7       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
pn  libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a         <none>         (no description available)
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.14.8-5       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
pn  librsvg2-2                <none>         (no description available)
pn  libsexy2                  <none>         (no description available)
pn  libsexymm2                <none>         (no description available)
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.0.17-2       type-safe Signal Framework for C++
pn  libview2                  <none>         (no description available)
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.0.3-7      X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                   1:1.0.1-2      X11 authorisation library
ii  libxcursor1               1.1.7-4        X cursor management library
ii  libxdmcp6                 1:1.0.1-2      X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxext6                  1:1.0.1-2      X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3                1:4.0.1-5      X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxft2                   2.1.8.2-8      FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxi6                    1:1.0.1-4      X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1              1:1.0.1-4.1    X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                   2.6.27.dfsg-1  GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2                2:1.1.0.2-5    X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.1-3      X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxtst6                  1:1.0.1-5      X11 Testing -- Resource extension 
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-13     compression library - runtime

-- no debconf information