WICD 1.7.0-1 just landed in Unstable! This is supposed to be the last 1.* release -- upstream will actively work on 2.0, and fix bugs on 1.7 only if they're serious enough. I will obviously support 1.7 until 2.0 comes out

Enjoy!

I just uploaded WICD 1.7.0~b3 to experimental. This was supposed to be the last pre-release before the official one, but a ~b4 has just been released, adding one more patch I'm keeping in debian/patches/. Luckily enough, my previous big hacking to split the source code (to make it easier for packagers to have separate binary packages) has been merged upstream! So one less patch for me to maintain

It would be cool if experienced people (this is not (yet) for the faint of heart!) could test this package, before 1.7.0 gets released as stable and I upload it to sid. Or maybe you could just want to help us

Let's find bugs now!

Why is wicd NEW? Simple, I managed to split the files into separate packages.

As soon as it clears NEW, those who are using experimental will be able to install a cli-only wicd, i.e. no more unnecessary throwing in of GTK+ and X

I will make a call for testing as soon as this package clears the queue. Hope I didn't make too much mistakes

For those of you who don't use experimental, the 1.6.x branch of wicd has been sitting there for some time. It had some bugreports, and I closely cooperated with upstream to get patches merged.

Here we come then, wicd 1.6.1 has been uploaded to unstable. Upstream merged all the patches I provided them (yay!), and it has lots of improvements from 1.5.9.

On the packaging side, it now provides a nice Debconf script to add/remove users to/from the netdev group (already translated into 9 languages, thanks d-i18n people!).

Upstream side:

• it gracefully handles daemon restarts. That was a major issue before, because every package upgrade caused the GUI not to work anymore;
• udhcpc support has been added, this is rather useful to FSO people (thanks gismo for the initial patch!);
• a message box shows up when DBus blocks access to the daemon (just make sure you add yourself to the netdev group, and reload DBus);
• I added support for pre/post-down connection scripts, which upstream kindly merged;
• other smaller things

I am expecting more bugs yet to come, since experimental doesn't have the same userbase as unstable, but, hey, that's how it works.

Also, I'm going to requestsync it to Ubuntu Karmic Koala as soon as possible, hope to get it there before the Debian Import Freeze, planned on Jun 25.

Enjoy it!

I've just uploaded wicd 1.5.9-1 to Debian/unstable. From this version onwards, to be able to use wicd-client to connect to the wicd daemon, you need to be part of the netdev system group.