Bug in pcmcia-cs install script?
I just did my daily apt-get upgrade, and finally the pcmcia-packages
also where upgraded, which have always been kept back since I
dist-upgraded from potato to woody in December. The new version is
3.1.31.
What is at least an annoying wishlist bug, if not more, is that the
network settings from the old /etc/pcmcia/network.opts have not been
transfered to the new file, and I was also not asked by debconf to put
in new values.
/etc/pcmcia/network.opts contains all the things like IP-adress, gateway
and nameservers. Of course this file is not from the *.deb, it has been
created by a script when I first installed the network stuff in
potato. Then, this script must have asked me for the information and put
it into the file.
Now, upon upgrade, debconf informed me that the file from the new
package differs from the existing file "created by you or a script", as
usual. What I think it should have done is either parse the old file and
put the data in the new one (at a first glance, the file format seemed
very different, however upon closer inspection it was only the order and
the comments that have changed, not the syntax), or rather call again
the script that originally created that file.
As it is now, one has to manually edit the file to get back network
access. And if the problem persists upon a new installation, some
configuration script is missing that existed in potato.
Should I report this as a bug? Can one comment wether this is really a
problem in pcmcia-cs or elsewhere?
Bye, Frank
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