[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#601669: Bug#601669: network-manager: does not notice dhcp success

[Michael Biebl]

On 28.10.2010 14:52, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 02:39:21PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> On 28.10.2010 11:55, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> 
>>> network-manager does not notice that dhcp has been successful; it thus
>>> timeouts waiting for it and deconfigures the -- in the meantime --
>>> perfectly working interface.
> 
>>> Oct 28 11:35:23 doggy dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.1.1-P1
> 
>>> ii  dhcdbd                 3.0-5             D-Bus interface to the ISC DHCP cl
> 
>> You are mixing dhcp-client v4 from unstable with networkmanager from stable,
>> which uses the obsolete dhcdbd to control the dhcp-client.
>> I don't think mixing your system in that way is really a good idea.
> 
> If dhcp-client breaks older versions of network-manager, it has to
> declare that in its dependencies (versioned Breaks: or
> Conflicts:). "Missing conflicts / breaks" is seveiry serious.

Feel free to verify that nm+dhcdbd from stable work fine with dhcp3-client but
break with dhcp4-client.
In that case, file a bug against dhcp4-client or let me know, and I'll reopen
and reassign this bug.

Michael

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