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

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

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.

-- 
Lionel