package: wpasupplicant severity: serious justification: policy 3.5 version: 2.5-2+v2.4-3, 2:2.4-1
wpasupplicant relies on ifupdown, but there is no relationship to it declared in the packaging. For example, without ifupdown installed running these commands: # ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev iwn0 # wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c wpa.conf causes the wpa_supplicant process to hang using 100% CPU. Once ifupdown is installed, the exact same set of commands and same conf file, wpasupplicant correctly connects to my access point. Best wishes, Mike