On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 02:09:22PM +0100, Uwe Storbeck wrote: > Hi Harald
Hi Uwe > > > Hmmm I understand but this shouldn't have broken your config as the keyword > > is > > still implemented by the parser (and removed keywords should be detected and > > alerted by the init script). > > I don't think it has broken my config. The best guess I can do > from what I remember is that I had swapped left and right peer in > my old config (copied same config file for both sides of the > connection) which the old openswan version obviously has tolerated > and the new one - correctly - doesn't anymore. Hmmm did you use KLIPS on Lenny? If not this shouldn't make a difference I guess... > > But the bug report wasn't about breaking my config but about not > to tell me what keyword in my config is obsolete. If you have a > running configuration such a message doesn't matter much. But when > your configuration is broken such a message adds confusion as you > don't know if it's the reason for the break or not. Sorry for > beeing misleading there. Ah ok now I understand what you mean - well the next upload to unstable will fix it for Wheezy but I'm not sure how we deal best with Squeeze. > > > For this report should we consider > > this a wishlist entry or close it completely (as it seems the original > > problem > > did not have anything to do with the null entry)? > > I still consider it a bug when a program complains about obsolete > keywords and then tell you "null" instead of the name of the > keyword. Well it's a bug but the question is rather if it's a bug which should be fixed in a stable upload (don't know the policy for such uploads good enough). > It either should not try to tell you the name at all or > - of course more user friendly - tell the correct name. Agreed - the bug fix is also not very sophisticated... > > But you are right, severity of the bug rather should have been > minor. I'll change it. Thanks - maybe Rene can comment on the options we have? > > Regards > > Uwe Kind regards Harald -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
