[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#655479: wpasupplicant: Please consider providing a libeap package.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 0.7.3-6
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

I'm in the process of packaging wimax and wimax-tools in order to enable WiMAX
support in NetworkManager (and provide user-space libraries for manual use).

Unfortunately, the WiMAX sdk depends on a libeap package that should be built
from the wpasupplicant source. Fedora has included a patch, initially coming
from the linux-wimax people to achieve this; and mainly depends on building
wpasupplicant slightly differently and possibly providing an extra package
for a libeap library.

I've attached the patch for your convenience.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers precise-updates
  APT policy: (510, 'precise-updates'), (510, 'precise'), (500, 'precise-updates'), (500, 'precise-security'), (500, 'precise')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-8-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages wpasupplicant depends on:
ii  adduser           3.113ubuntu2
ii  initscripts       2.88dsf-13.10ubuntu8
ii  libc6             2.13-24ubuntu2
ii  libdbus-1-3       1.4.16-1ubuntu2
ii  libnl-3-200       3.2.3-2ubuntu1
ii  libnl-genl-3-200  3.2.3-2ubuntu1
ii  libpcsclite1      1.7.4-2ubuntu1
ii  libreadline6      6.2-8
ii  libssl1.0.0       1.0.0e-2ubuntu4
ii  lsb-base          4.0-0ubuntu17

wpasupplicant recommends no packages.

Versions of packages wpasupplicant suggests:
pn  libengine-pkcs11-openssl  <none>
pn  wpagui                    <none>

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