Hi, Axel Beckert wrote on 01/23/17 18:59: > 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
Isn't the /sbin/dhcpcd symlink a must since dhcpd5 claims to provide dhcp-client? > 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 > thanks for the additional informations and your work. Regards, jvp.
