Package: ddclient Version: 3.8.0-11.5 Severity: minor Although ddclient supports dozens of protocols and routers and other options the debconf templates will only work with a fraction of these configurations.
I was quite pleased to find that ddclient which is at least partially endorsed by namecheap was available in the standard repos and that minimal configuration was needed to get it working with namecheap (5 line configuration file), but that during install, choosing a dynamic dns service was required but namecheap was not an option and when I selected other manual configuration was not an option. There are several wish-list bugs requesting specific options be added to the templates, and adding namecheap would certainly handle my specific use case, but the bigger problem (why this is tagged minor instead of wish-list) is that there is no way to indicate that the debconf database is incomplete/inacurate and that manual configuration should be/has been done. It is my recommendation that manual be added to the first set of options (selection of well known service/other) and to selection of protocol. I am not arguing against adding the namecheap service and protocol to the relevant menu entries, but instead that manual is more important, as it will not only work with newer/unknown services and newer protocols it will also work with multiple server setups and other currently unsupported advanced configurations. thank you for your attention to this issue. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.4 APT prefers oldstable-updates APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages ddclient depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.49 ii initscripts 2.88dsf-41+deb7u1 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian8+deb7u1 ii perl [perl5] 5.14.2-21+deb7u1 Versions of packages ddclient recommends: ii libio-socket-ssl-perl 1.76-2 ddclient suggests no packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
