Resend: experimental upload candidate for madwifi-ng
Kel Modderman
kelrin at tpg.com.au
Sun May 21 05:58:55 UTC 2006
Kel Modderman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The following location contains a snapshot of madwifi-ng packaging
> that I think is suitable for upload to experimental:
>
> http://users.tpg.com.au/sigm/misc/pkg-madwifi/
>
> After our previous conversation, I made the following major changes:
>
> * dropped madwifi-ng-dev, its not really usable as a build-dep for
> anything, and its convenience factor is not really good enough to
> argue for its inclusion
> * added madwifi-ng-doc, to contain the large users-guide.pdf
> provided by upstream. This reduces the size of the
> madwifi-ng-tools package dramatically, and I think that makes sense
> * removed conflicts from control files, as per our previous discussion
>
> @ Loic, can you please arrange for them to be uploaded to the
> experimental archive? I expect it may spend some time in the NEW queue
> after the modifications mentioned above.
>
> I'd really like to see madwifi-ng make its way into etch. There are
> some reports of madwifi-old misbehaving on >= 2.6.16 kernels, and the
> chance of support for users of madwifi-old is rapidly diminishing, as
> it is on the verge of upstream deprecation. It'd also make backports
> much easier post-etch release. What do you think?
>
> PS: I've no news about the problem you faced concerning countrycode,
> the HAL version is unchanged for a while now.
>
This is a resend. The snapshot is now in sync with current upstream svn
trunk.
Thanks, Kel.
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