Bug#773749: Resolvconf vs wicd

2015-01-16 Thread Thomas Hood
On 14 January 2015 at 16:18, Axel Beckert a...@debian.org 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

Bug#773749: Resolvconf vs wicd

2015-01-14 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Thomas Hood wrote: On 14 January 2015 at 15:08, Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net 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

Bug#773749: Resolvconf vs wicd

2015-01-14 Thread Thomas Hood
On 14 January 2015 at 15:08, Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net 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

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

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 the

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

2015-01-13 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 any

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

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 references to