Package: linux-container Version: 1-6 Severity: wishlist Hi,
The debconf networking questions for linux-container default to 192.168.0.* defaults for all settings, which is fair enough, but once the IP address has been set to something else these defaults are liable to simply cause confusion, given that they are bound to be wrong. As a minimum, I'd suggest clearing the defaults for the rest of the settings if the IP address selected is not in the 192.168.0.0 network and/or the subnet mask has been changed (which should probably be the second question). It would be even better to calculate reasonable guesses for all the other questions from the IP address & netmask -- or alternatively just leave them blank if doing so will provoke ifconfig to do the right thing. If leaving them blank is the right thing to do, the prompt should also encourage this more -- saying something like: It is OK to leave this blank, as it will normally be correctly set based on your other settings unless you are doing something unusual. It might even be worth lowering the priority of some of these questions, perhaps conditionally on the netmask being one of the usual ones. Cheers, Phil. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages linux-container depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.43 linux-container recommends no packages. Versions of packages linux-container suggests: ii openssh-server 1:5.9p1-5 -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
