Bug#365613: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#365613: Upgrading remote system makes it unmaintainable after reboot

2006-05-07 Thread Kel Modderman
Reinhard Tartler wrote: We are talking here only about the cornercase of some random custom scripts, which start wpa_supplicant using /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf You mean we should leave 'zombie' files around on the filesystem on package upgrades? Wouldn't that violate Policy? And this also keeps

Bug#365613: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#365613: Upgrading remote system makes it unmaintainable after reboot

2006-05-04 Thread Michael Tweedale
On 2 May 2006 at 17:19, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > > lowVery trivial items that have defaults that will work in the > >vast majority of cases; only control freaks see these. > > medium Normal items that have reasonable defaults. > > high Items that don?t have a reasonable default. > >

Bug#365613: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#365613: Upgrading remote system makes it unmaintainable after reboot

2006-05-03 Thread Felix Homann
On Wednesday 03 May 2006 09:05, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > but the bug submitter seem > to have confirmed that he uses custom scripts, which use > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf, Right, the "custom script" (which was in fact a direct call of wpa_supplicant via pre-up in /e/n/i) used /etc/wpa_supplicant.

Bug#365613: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#365613: Upgrading remote system makes it unmaintainable after reboot

2006-05-03 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, On Mi, 2006-05-03 at 09:05 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > We are talking here only about the cornercase of some random custom > scripts, which start wpa_supplicant using /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. Oh, sorry, I thought you decided to leave people's setup in a working state for all users, incl

Bug#365613: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#365613: Upgrading remote system makes it unmaintainable after reboot

2006-05-03 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:15:49PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > Am Mittwoch, den 03.05.2006, 06:44 +1000 schrieb Kel Modderman: > > Leaving /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf > > intact if its been modified would go a long way to making the transition > > a bit smoother. > > Doesn't that requ

Bug#365613: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#365613: Upgrading remote system makes it unmaintainable after reboot

2006-05-02 Thread Kel Modderman
Reinhard Tartler wrote: Since this issue won't break the system, but 'only' the wireless network connection (which is grave enough in some cases), I really don't think that 'critical' is appropriate. But thats certainly subject to personal opinion. I still think that this is kind of debconf ab

Bug#365613: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#365613: Upgrading remote system makes it unmaintainable after reboot

2006-05-02 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 02:42:51PM +0100, Michael Tweedale wrote: > On 2 May 2006 at 22:05, Kel Modderman wrote: > > >place, so that custom scripts will stind find it. However I think this > > >is a quite seldom cornercase, and I highly doubt this would satisfy the > > >submitter. > > > > Well, l

Bug#365613: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#365613: Upgrading remote system makes it unmaintainable after reboot

2006-05-02 Thread Kel Modderman
Felix Homann wrote: And just in case Reinhard did not understand: If you leave /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf in place on upgrades I regard the issue I reported in Bug#365613 as fixed! Clarification: only leave /etc/wpa_supplicant alone if its been edited, remove the file if it has not changed s

Bug#365613: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#365613: Upgrading remote system makes it unmaintainable after reboot

2006-05-02 Thread Felix Homann
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 15:06, Kel Modderman wrote: > Clarification: only leave /etc/wpa_supplicant alone if its been edited, > remove the file if it has not changed since installation. > > Kel. Sure, that's the right way to do it. Thanks, Felix -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Bug#365613: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#365613: Upgrading remote system makes it unmaintainable after reboot

2006-05-02 Thread Felix Homann
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 14:05, Kel Modderman wrote: > Reinhard Tartler wrote: > > On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:34:31PM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote: > >>> We could surely keep the conffile in place, but would this really fix > >>> the issue? > >> > >> If you were invoking wpa_supplicant by an own script