[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#519767: Please include CRDA

[Kel Modderman]

On Sunday 15 March 2009 18:13:23 Kel Modderman wrote:
> On Sunday 15 March 2009 12:03:54 Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > Package: iw
> > Version: 0.9.9-1
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Could you please include CRDA either in the iw package, or (preferably) in
> > a separate one?  The sources already include a debian/ directory.
> 
> You should file a RFP [0]. iw package will not provide crda. Closing bug.
> 
> There was a discussion about packaging it for Debian [1]. I expressed concerns
> and upstream dismissed them and noone else from our packaging group showed
> interest to become involved. Therefore I do not know if I/we are the
> best candidate maintainers of this software.
> 
> At least, the problem about having to munge crda + wireless-regdb tarballs
> together just to have a sane package build is problematic, and might be much
> easier to do when dpkg-source v3.0 has support in DAK, so that multiple
> upstream tarballs can be seamlessly used to create upstream sorce tree.
> 
> Thanks, Kel.
> 
> [0] http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/
[1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-wpa-devel/2009-January/002111.html