[pkg-wpa-devel] Possible problems in your Debian packages

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

Hi 

On Saturday 30 June 2012, DDPOMail robot wrote:
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> === iw:
> = Missing build(s) on kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386
>   This might need manual action from your side.
>   See https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=iw

iw is "Architecture: linux-any", neither are its build-dependencies 
(libnl3) available on !linux-any, as such it will 'never' be built for 
kfreebsd-any. Therefore I don't quite understand why this particular
issue gets reported.

iw uses nl80211 to talk to the Linux kernel's cfg80211 subsystem in 
order to configure mac80211 softmac wlan drivers (even legacy drivers 
like e.g. ipw2200 or staging ones like r8712u are not supported, 
because these don't expose cfg80211/ nl80211 interfaces) and offers 
limited functionality for cfg80211/ nl80211 powered hardmac wlan 
drivers. These interfaces are specific to the Linux kernel and haven't 
been implemented in any other kernel, therefore iw won't be built for
any other architecture in the forseeable future.

> === Packages with a new upstream version available:
>   iw  3.5  (Debian: 3.4-1)

[ wheezy is frozen ;) well, the 3.5 upstream release was just 1-2 weeks
  too late for approaching a sponsor - and anything >= 3.2 is safe for 
  wheezy's 3.2 linux kernel; backport users might want to get newer 
  versions to make use of new kernel features of backport kernels - but
  that's beyond the scope of wheezy and unstable for the time being. ]

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
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