[Julien Cristau] > What's the behaviour of the package installation if ping and host, > as used by debian/generate-config, are not installed? The error handling of the autodetection is simple. If the autodetection fail, the old static setup (with a local database only) is set up instead. In other words, if the autodetection fail, it behave as version 1.2.1-1 did. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen