[pkg-wicd-maint] Bug#685146: Bug#685146: wicd-daemon packages dependencies

[Jörg-Volker Peetz]

Hi,

Axel Beckert wrote on 01/23/17 18:59:
> Control: clone -1 -2
> Control: severity -2 normal
> Control: retitle -2 wicd-daemon: needs to look for dhcpcd5 instead of dhcpcd after the release of Stretch
> Control: tag -2 sid buster
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> TL;DR: wicd works fine with dhcpcd5.
> 
> Axel Beckert wrote:
>> Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
>>> This means wicd does not cooperate with dhcpcd5?
>>
>> My immediate repsonse would have been: It does work with dhcpcd5
>> because after https://bugs.debian.org/783272 we updated that
>> dependency to dhcpcd5.
>>
>> But your question made me think and after some checking I noticed that
>> I probably assumed too much for that change: dhcpcd5 does only provide
>> /sbin/dhcpcd5 while wicd searches for "dhcpcd" without "5". So it
>> likely never find "dhcpcd5".
> 
> I luckily was wrong here: While the package only contains
> /sbin/dhcpcd5 (which is what I checked) its postinst script creates a
> symlink at /sbin/dhcpcd via update-alternatives and hence wicd finds

Isn't the /sbin/dhcpcd symlink a must since dhcpd5 claims to provide dhcp-client?

> the right dhcpcd binary. It also works fine with dhcpcd5. I'm
> currently writing this mail over a wireless connection established
> with wicd and with dhcpcd5 as used DHCP client.
> 
> Bit since -- to my knowledge -- there is no other package offering an
> alternative for dhcpcd anymore, and Iexpect that the alternatives
> system will get removed from the dhcpcd5 package in the future, wicd
> should be patched to look for dhcpcd5 instead, at least in Debian.
> Cloning this bug report accordingly.
> 
> 		Regards, Axel
> 
thanks for the additional informations and your work.

Regards,
jvp.