[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#793735: Bug#793735: tries to launch arping from /usr/bin/ (which is installed in /usr/sbin)

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Michael,

On  So 26 Jul 2015 23:32:12 CEST, Michael Biebl wrote:

> Am 26.07.2015 um 23:11 schrieb Mike Gabriel:
>> Package: network-manager
>> Version: 0.9.10.0-7
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Today I saw this in my syslog on a Debian jessie machine:
>>
>> """
>> Jul 26 22:20:23 my-machine NetworkManager[1665]: <warn> Could not
>> send ARP for local address 10.236.214.162: Kindprozess »/usr/bin/arping«
>> konnte nicht ausgeführt werden (Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden)
>> """
>>
>> The German part in the above error message means: Child process
>> /usr/bin/arping could not be executed (No such file or directory).
>>
>> Reason: arping is installed in /usr/sbin/ (!!!).
>
> ..
>
>> pn  iputils-arping  <none>
>
> Right, that's why network-manager use iputils-arping, which is in /usr/bin

Shouldn't this be handled by the Depends: field then? My system never  
pulled in iputils-arping. Maybe because the system has been installed  
years ago and always dist-upgraded since then.

IMHO, network-manager should either not complain about missing arping  
executable or package-wise pull-in the correct package as a dependency  
(which ends up in the original arping package not being installable  
anymore on all systems using network-manager).

Mike
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