Package: wicd Version: 1.7.0+ds1-2 Severity: normal wicd has its own directories for scripts, and the script directories in /etc/network/ are not used when wicd brings interfaces up or down. This can lead to many problems, since the large[1] body of integration written for ifupdown is not available to users of wicd.
Two examples I have personally experienced: 1. Sometimes postfix is unable to deliver mail when my laptop is moved to a different network. I have to manually restart it to clear the queue. It's easy not to notice that mail is not going out. /etc/network/if-up.d/postfix normally avoids this problem by refreshing the resolv.conf file in postfix's chroot. 2. nfs mounts in /etc/fstab do not get mounted when using wicd. /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs normally handles this. Often these problems can be dealt with by symlinking the scripts into the corresponding wicd script directories, but I think that requiring users to deal with these sorts of problems on an ad-hoc basis, just because they chose wicd, is not good. Note that network manager, despite its other faults, does run the ifupdown scripts. Also, note that the lxde-desktop task currently uses wicd. [1] Ie, 80 scripts spread over 43 packages. -- see shy jo
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