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Package: netbase
Version: 4.34
Severity: important
Currently, the netbase package only 'Recommends' ifupdown:
Package: netbase
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 4.34
Priority: important
Section: admin
Maintainer: Marco d'Itri <[email protected]>
Uncompressed Size: 98.3k
Depends: lsb-base (>= 3.0-6)
Recommends: ifupdown
Conflicts: inetutils-inetd (< 2:1.4.3+20060719-3), openbsd-inetd (<
0.20050402-3)
Description: Basic TCP/IP networking system
This package provides the necessary infrastructure for basic TCP/IP
based networking.
However, removing the ifupdown package results in a broken networking
init script due to the following line:
[ -x /sbin/ifup ] || exit 0
Since it is perfectly acceptable to configure APT to only install
'Depends', the ifupdown dependency should be removed, or it should be
moved to the Depends section.
Thanks,
Sol
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On May 27, Sol Jerome <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > The init script just exits when /sbin/ifup doesn't exist (i.e. you can't
> > > start or stop networking via the initscript).
> > And again, so what? It *uses* /sbin/ifup.
> Which is why it should *Depend* on it. As mentioned in the original
> report.
No, it should not. If you do not install ifupdown you cannot expect
this script to work. If you disable installing recommended packages you
are on your own.
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ciao,
Marco
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