Bug#4718: generic clunkiness in diald

[rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu]

Package: diald
Version: 0.14-3

Imagine configuring a debian system to use the ftp method under dselect
to provide the debian packages.  The user would plausibly enter local
ip address and gateway address while configuring the base system -- diald
doesn't pick these up.

Further, diald won't install till perl has been downloaded and installed.
This is a big package.  [Also, dselect will need ftp (netstd -- moderately
big), and cpp (or worse, gcc + binutils + libc5) -- but this is outside
the scope of diald.]

-- 
Raul

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