Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian@packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock
Please unblock package netscript-2.4
2 serious bugs have been fixed in 5.4.8:
#717871 netscript: fails to install due to insserv rejecting the script
header: There is a loop between service networking and netscript if started
This is due to the ifupdown providing insserv support for $network, and
netscript-2.4 also doing the same. Both packages configure networking. The
setting for $network is configured in /etc/insserv/insserv.conf, but there is
no way of overriding that, is there?
This is fixed by removing init.d support for insserv/sysvinit, and depending on
systemd-sysv
#773772/#773773 netscript-2.4: Interace names with '-' in them cannot be set
up, and network configuration fails.
Netscript overloads variable names by adding the interface name at the start.
'-' are not acceptable parts of /bin/bash environment variable names. The
changes for this convert '-' in interface names to '_', which also should be
done to interface names in /etc/netscript/network.conf
This bug was fixed in 5.4.7 and I forgot to put a 'Closes' in the changelog and
had to close #773772/3 via the bugs.debian.org control interface.
A small fix involving quoting misplacement to do with bridge configuration is
also in 5.4.8. I know this is a minor change that fixes an 'Important' level
bug I found.
I am the upstream author for Netscript and a Debian Developer (since the early
2000s), and upstream is actually released directly into Debian, hence no -1 -2
package release levels. It was one of my first Debian packages. I would
release it differently now. It has functional heurestics that would be nice to
have in ifupdown. The useful iptables handling is available as a seperate
package netscript-ipfilter, which is better than iptables-persistent as it has
history, and 'helper' chains.
The above fixes are all minor 5.4.x version bug fixes. Note that new 5.x
functionality has been added. Please unblock the package, even though it has
the bridge handling quoting fixes.
All the above has been tested on an openstack server on Jessie/unstable I am
setting up to learn about Openstack
Changlog entries for 5.4.7 and 5.4.8
(include/attach the debdiff against the package in testing)
unblock netscript-2.4/5.4.8
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
diff -Nru netscript-2.4-5.4.6/debian/changelog netscript-2.4-5.4.8/debian/changelog
--- netscript-2.4-5.4.6/debian/changelog 2014-12-22 19:48:40.0 +1300
+++ netscript-2.4-5.4.8/debian/changelog 2014-12-23 18:05:08.0 +1300
@@ -1,6 +1,21 @@
+netscript-2.4 (5.4.8) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ * Remove sysvint/inserv support for package. (Closes: #771871)
+Revert totally removing ifupdown emulation/Provides as this breaks too
+many things. This just removes the dependency loop in /etc/init.d files
+which is unfixable.
+
+ -- Matthew Grant Tue, 23 Dec 2014 17:50:04 +1300
+
+netscript-2.4 (5.4.7) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ * Convert '-' in interface names to '_' (Closes: #773772)
+
+ -- Matthew Grant Mon, 22 Dec 2014 21:10:30 +1300
+
netscript-2.4 (5.4.6) unstable; urgency=medium
- * Remove ifupdown emulation (Closes: #771871)
+ * Remove ifupdown emulation
-- Matthew Grant Mon, 22 Dec 2014 19:48:20 +1300
diff -Nru netscript-2.4-5.4.6/debian/control netscript-2.4-5.4.8/debian/control
--- netscript-2.4-5.4.6/debian/control 2014-12-22 19:50:08.0 +1300
+++ netscript-2.4-5.4.8/debian/control 2014-12-23 18:06:20.0 +1300
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
Package: netscript-2.4
Architecture: all
-Depends: iproute2 | iproute (>= 20001007), bridge-utils (>= 0.9.3), iptables, netbase, bash (>= 2.03), isc-dhcp-client | dhcpcd | pump, ${misc:Depends}
-Provides: netscript
+Depends: iproute2 | iproute (>= 20001007), bridge-utils (>= 0.9.3), iptables, netbase, bash (>= 2.03), isc-dhcp-client | dhcpcd | pump, systemd-sysv, ${misc:Depends}
+Provides: netscript, ifupdown
Conflicts: netscript, netscript-2.2, ifupdown, netscript-ipfilter
Replaces: netscript, ifupdown
Suggests: whereami, dnsmasq, resolvconf, wpasupplicant, wicd, quagga, radvd, bird
diff -Nru netscript-2.4-5.4.6/debian/netscript-2.4.links netscript-2.4-5.4.8/debian/netscript-2.4.links
--- netscript-2.4-5.4.6/debian/netscript-2.4.links 2014-12-22 19:46:26.0 +1300
+++ netscript-2.4-5.4.8/debian/netscript-2.4.links 2014-12-23 17:43:57.0 +1300
@@ -2,3 +2,7 @@
usr/share/man/man5/netscript-2.4.conf.5.gz usr/share/man/man5/if.conf.5.gz
usr/share/man/man5/netscript-2.4.conf.5.gz usr/share/man/man5/qos.conf.5.gz
usr/share/man/ma
