[pkg-wicd-maint] Bug#685146: Bug#685146: wicd-daemon packages dependencies

[Axel Beckert]

Control: clone -1 -2
Control: severity -2 normal
Control: retitle -2 wicd-daemon: needs to look for dhcpcd5 instead of dhcpcd after the release of Stretch
Control: tag -2 sid buster

Hi again,

TL;DR: wicd works fine with dhcpcd5.

Axel Beckert wrote:
> Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> > This means wicd does not cooperate with dhcpcd5?
> 
> My immediate repsonse would have been: It does work with dhcpcd5
> because after https://bugs.debian.org/783272 we updated that
> dependency to dhcpcd5.
> 
> But your question made me think and after some checking I noticed that
> I probably assumed too much for that change: dhcpcd5 does only provide
> /sbin/dhcpcd5 while wicd searches for "dhcpcd" without "5". So it
> likely never find "dhcpcd5".

I luckily was wrong here: While the package only contains
/sbin/dhcpcd5 (which is what I checked) its postinst script creates a
symlink at /sbin/dhcpcd via update-alternatives and hence wicd finds
the right dhcpcd binary. It also works fine with dhcpcd5. I'm
currently writing this mail over a wireless connection established
with wicd and with dhcpcd5 as used DHCP client.

Bit since -- to my knowledge -- there is no other package offering an
alternative for dhcpcd anymore, and Iexpect that the alternatives
system will get removed from the dhcpcd5 package in the future, wicd
should be patched to look for dhcpcd5 instead, at least in Debian.
Cloning this bug report accordingly.

		Regards, Axel
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