Bug#545358: system-tools-backends: Interfaces configuration have no effect

[Aldo Vizcaino y Fernando Lopez]

Package: system-tools-backends
Version: 2.6.0-2lenny3
Severity: grave
Tags: patch
Justification: renders package unusable

As for the 2.6.0-2lenny3 version of system-tools-backends we have noted network-admin configurations has no effect, for example opening network-admin and setting a static ip for a interface has no effect, when we checked /etc/network/interfaces it remains unchanged.

It's a bug introduced in the module Ifaces.pm, in the hash containing the supported distributions debian is absent.

By adding "debian" => "debian", it can be solved

----------------patch----------------------
--- Ifaces.pm-old       2009-09-03 14:48:07.000000000 -0300
+++ Ifaces.pm   2009-09-03 14:59:04.000000000 -0300
@@ -2011,6 +2011,7 @@
    "gentoo"          => "gentoo",
    "freebsd-5"       => "freebsd-5",
    "solaris-2.11"    => "solaris-2.11",
+    "debian"          => "debian",
   );

  return $dist_map{$Utils::Backend::tool{"platform"}};
---------------end of patch----------------

We sorry if the report isn't correct as it is the first time we report a bug.

Greetings, the Lihuen development team (lihuen.linti.unlp.edu.ar).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_AR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_AR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages system-tools-backends depends on:
ii  adduser                   3.110          add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                     2.7-18         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.2.1-5+lenny1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.76-1         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.16.6-2       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libnet-dbus-perl          0.33.6-1+b1    Extension for the DBus bindings

system-tools-backends recommends no packages.

system-tools-backends suggests no packages.

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