[pkg-wicd-maint] Bug#789567: Bug#789567: Override wicd.service file

[Salvo Tomaselli]

I am not sure the bugs are related at all, my suggestion is just to
make the timeout shorter, that one is about properly ordering it,
which I have no idea how to do.

2017-03-02 20:24 GMT+01:00 Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org>:
> Hi Salvo,
>
> Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
>> I think wicd should ship a .service file.
>
> I know you about https://bugs.debian.org/789567 :-)
>
>> We can basically use the autogenerated one but we should override the
>> timeout from 5 minutes to something like 10 seconds.
>
> I'm fine to do that although I'm not sure if it's suitable for a
> freeze exception.
>
>> Sometimes I'm trying to shut down or reboot my machine and if wicd
>> doesn't manage to release the dhcp, it remains stuck. It is quite
>> annoying.
>
> Sounds annoying indeed. I probably reboot seldom enough. :-)
>
>> So I think 10 seconds (or even less, it's not too important to release
>> dhcp) is a more reasonable value. Surely 5 minutes is way too long to
>> wait to close my laptop and leave… It takes less than that from my
>> place to my tram stop.
>
> Could you post an according file to #789567?
>
>                 Regards, Axel
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