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and subject line Bug#673688: fixed in ifupdown 0.7
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Package: ifupdown
Version: 0.7~rc3
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n
The paragraph in the NEWS.Debian about the new interface class featuers
is quite confusing. I had to read it several times until I unserstood
what it wants to say. Please consider reformulating it. Keep in mind that
upon upgrading to this is potentially shown to a lot of people and that
not all of them have a very technical background.
I'm not sure if this change really warants an NEWS.Debian entry as for most
people it does not change anything and as far as I understand it this is a
new additional feature, not a change in ifupdown behavior. Is it really
necessary that every Debian user sees this message?
Below I have included an attempt to reformulate the message to make it easier
to understand. But I'm not an english native speaker and might text might be
far from optimal. Therefore I also CCed the debian-i10n-english list on this
report.
Original message:
ifupdown (0.7~rc1+experimental) experimental; urgency=low
If ifup or ifquery is called with the --all option, if doesn't just
bring up all interfaces marked as "auto", but all interfaces of a
specified class, 'auto' by default. For the most uses, this doesn't
change anything, but lets all the interfaces of a specific class to be
brought up or queried.
If ifupdown is called with the --all option, before or after doing
anything to the interfaces, it calls all the hook scripts (pre-up or
down) with IFACE set to "--all", LOGICAL set to the current class
specified by the --allow option (or "auto" if it's not set),
ADDRFAM="meta" and METHOD="none".
-- Andrew O. Shadura <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:05:42 +0200
My reformulation attempt:
------
The --all option to ifup and ifquery can be combined with the --allow
option to bring up or query all interfaces of a specific class. The
default class if no --allow option is present is "auto". Therefore
for most use cases this does not change anything.
If ifupdown is called with the --all option, before or after doing
anything to the interfaces, it calls all the hook scripts (pre-up or
down) with IFACE set to "--all", LOGICAL set to the current class
specified by the --allow option (or "auto" if it's not set),
ADDRFAM="meta" and METHOD="none".
------
Thanks,
Gaudenz
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (700, 'unstable'), (50, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.3.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages ifupdown depends on:
ii dpkg 1.16.3
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-22.1
ii iproute 20120319-1
ii libc6 2.13-32
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian3
ifupdown recommends no packages.
Versions of packages ifupdown suggests:
pn isc-dhcp-client [dhcp-client] 4.2.2.dfsg.1-5
pn net-tools 1.60-24.1
pn ppp 2.4.5-5.1
pn rdnssd <none>
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: ifupdown
Source-Version: 0.7
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
ifupdown, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
ifupdown_0.7.dsc
to main/i/ifupdown/ifupdown_0.7.dsc
ifupdown_0.7.tar.gz
to main/i/ifupdown/ifupdown_0.7.tar.gz
ifupdown_0.7_amd64.deb
to main/i/ifupdown/ifupdown_0.7_amd64.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Andrew O. Shadura <[email protected]> (supplier of updated ifupdown package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing [email protected])
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Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 17:45:46 +0200
Source: ifupdown
Binary: ifupdown
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 0.7
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Andrew O. Shadura <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Andrew O. Shadura <[email protected]>
Description:
ifupdown - high level tools to configure network interfaces
Closes: 296115 340992 361964 673658 673688 674775 675016
Changes:
ifupdown (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Accept duplicate options in /etc/network/interfaces, join them using
a newline as a delimiter.
* If an interface isn't defined, but mentioned in auto or allow statement,
don't mention it in ifquery output.
* Change shortcut for --exclude to -X (was -e previously).
* Make ifquery return false if the interface isn't defined.
* Fix typos in the changelog.
* Calculate broadcast address internally.
* Allow concurrent netmask specification in both address (using CIDR
notation) and netmask for IPv6 (Closes: #674775).
* Add preferred-lifetime setting for IPv6.
* Pass -w and -e options to sysctl so we still can configure an interface
even if IPv6 SLAAC options can't be set for some reason.
* Port to GNU/Hurd (thanks to Svante Signell, closes: #296115).
* Chdir to root when executing external programs (Closes: #361964).
* Remove updetach from PPP method (Closes: #675016).
* Configure hotplug interfaces only if they're running (thanks to Evgeni
Golov, closes: #673658).
* Rewrite NEWS file (Closes: #673688).
* Update examples (Closes: #340992).
* Update tests.
* Update README.
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