Bug#460691: Reopening, network-admin in lenny still has multiple issues

[Josselin Mouette]

Le samedi 09 mai 2009 à 18:52 +0100, Jurij Smakov a écrit :
> I've just had a rather negative experience with gnome-network-admin in
> a freshly installed lenny system. It *still* does not support WPA, making
> it useless for many installations out there. It liberally overwrites the
> contents of /etc/network/interfaces, and at least on one occasion blew
> away a working configuration I had there (hence severity "serious"). There
> is no good reason to keep a buggy, obsolete, but highly visible (can be
> launched from "System" menu) package, when Network Manager is already
> installed, and much more functional (worked pretty much out of the box).
> I would really like to see network-admin removed in the next lenny point
> release, unless these problems are not fixed.

It’s true that network-admin and network-manager don’t always play well
together, but NM is unsuitable to configure static connections. Unless
you can propose a working implementation of netconf, I have no miracle
solution that can work with all setups.

If the chosen solution is to remove the functionality, we should just
drop the “connections” tab, the others are still useful.

Cheers,
-- 
 .''`.      Josselin Mouette
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