Bug#773749: Resolvconf vs wicd

2015-01-16 Thread Thomas Hood
On 14 January 2015 at 16:18, Axel Beckert wrote: >> It's up to the admin to change things in /etc/. Programs that play >> around with things in /etc/ at runtime are not well behaved by Debian >> standards. > > Depends. I agree for anything in the maintainer scripts, but I > disagree for anything w

Bug#773749: Resolvconf vs wicd

2015-01-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-01-14 15:24:53 +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > It's up to the admin to change things in /etc/. Programs that play > around with things in /etc/ at runtime are not well behaved by Debian > standards. dhclient does this by default. > > Otherwise the user needs to modify > > /etc/dhcp/dhclient-e

Bug#773749: Resolvconf vs wicd

2015-01-14 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Thomas Hood wrote: > On 14 January 2015 at 15:08, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2015-01-14 14:14:22 +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > >> This is an allowed configuration (which is sometimes even useful). [...] > > > > OK, but this is a very atypical usage for users of wicd, whose goal > > is to mak

Bug#773749: Resolvconf vs wicd

2015-01-14 Thread Thomas Hood
On 14 January 2015 at 15:08, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2015-01-14 14:14:22 +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: >> This is an allowed configuration (which is sometimes even useful). [...] > > OK, but this is a very atypical usage for users of wicd, whose goal > is to make things work without needing to be

Bug#773749: Resolvconf vs wicd

2015-01-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-01-14 14:14:22 +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > > The problem is actually a lack of consistency: only > > /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf is modified *but* it is not used. > > This is an allowed configuration (which is sometimes even useful). > Resolvconf writes /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf and the

Bug#773749: Resolvconf vs wicd

2015-01-14 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Vincent, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > and indeed, there is a backup file: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21 2010-05-24 20:28:15 /var/lib/wicd/resolv.conf.orig Yep, here, too. > However it is completely obsolete. The above method is obviously > broken: if ever wicd-daemon or the system crashes, or th

Bug#773749: Resolvconf vs wicd

2015-01-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-01-13 23:32:45 +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > Yes, the patch has been removed with the 1.6.0-1 upload with the > following changelog entry: > > * debian/patches/: > - 01-fix_desktop_file.patch, 07-add_resolvconf_support.patch > removed, fixed upstream Anyway I haven't provided a

Bug#773749: Resolvconf vs wicd

2015-01-13 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Thomas, Thomas Hood wrote: > I just read bug report #514597 entitled "wicd does not work properly > with resolvconf" which was closed in version 1.5.9-2 with the message > that "07-add_resolvconf_support.patch added". Although I don't see > this patch in the current source tree, I do see refere

Bug#773749: Resolvconf vs wicd

2015-01-13 Thread Thomas Hood
I just read bug report #514597 entitled "wicd does not work properly with resolvconf" which was closed in version 1.5.9-2 with the message that "07-add_resolvconf_support.patch added". Although I don't see this patch in the current source tree, I do see references to the resolvconf program which in