On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 10:18:14AM +0000, KatolaZ wrote: > On Sun, Mar 04, 2018 at 10:03:20PM +0000, KatolaZ wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 04, 2018 at 05:34:44PM +0000, Rowland Penny wrote:
> > > If Devuan wants to continue using wicd, I think it is going to have to > > > install net-tools as part of the install. > > > > thanks. Bottom line is: we should Recommends: net-tools every time a > > task Recommends: wicd. This has been reported by a couple more > > users. The issue has arisen since net-tools is not any more Priority: > > standard in Stretch, so it won't get installed in the base system. We > > could indeed just fork the package and increase its priority, solving > > the problem once and for all. We'll discuss that and go for the most > > reasonable alternative ;) > > Just an update on this: there will soon be a "new" net-tools in > ascii-proposed (version 1.60+git20161116.90da8a0-1+devuan1), with the > correct Priority: important. Uhm, why? This doesn't solve the bug — priority affects only defaults. If package foo requires bar to function, it needs Depends: bar (or an equivalent, such as bar being Essential: yes). > Actually, the Debian source package still has the correct Priority: > important, while the binary strangely has Priority: optional ...o_O It > must have been a last-minute override in Stretch. It's only the override file what matters, the field in binary (not source) packages affects only the initial value; all updates currently need to be done by hand. That's an artefact of the way DAK works. > Please test the "new" package. I guess we will include the > ascii-proposed version in ascii straight away. Without even looking, I can tell you it won't work: priority:Important packages don't get included on existing installs (neither on upgrades nor when you install wicd on a machine that used no or another way to set up wifi). net-tools will be also absent on minimal installs. This is #881225 by the way, fixed in buster but not stretch. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ A dumb species has no way to open a tuna can. ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ A smart species invents a can opener. ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ A master species delegates. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
