madwifi-ng-dev_0.9.0+svn1416-1

[Kel Modderman]

Pascal DORMEAU wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Why is madwifi-ng-dev depending on madwifi-ng-source ?


My reasoning for it so far is; the includes installed by madwifi-dev can 
only be used with the matching source version of the module (or with 
more recent snapshots when these includes remain unchanged).

>
> In the madwifi-ng-dev package description, for the example given 
> (compiling wpa_supplicant), the source tree is not necessary, the 
> includes are enough (from my experience with wpa_supplicant 
> compilation). Moreover, when the source package is installed, the 
> source tree is not untared (still inside /usr/src/madwifi-ng.tar.bz2, 
> making it unusable).


You're right, its not a functional dependency; the full madwifi source 
tree is not used directly while using madwifi-dev for the purposes 
provided, but rather the full source tree *should* be used to build 
binary modules to be used with the applications compiled directly 
against the includes extracted from that exact same version of the 
madwifi source tree.

>
> May I suggest to change "Depends: madwifi-ng-source" by something like 
> "Recommends: madwifi-ng-source" ?
>
> However, I could be wrong (I am not a developer, and I have no skills 
> in this field),  there might be something I don't understand and a 
> could reason for that dependency. In such case, just ignore this message.
>
> Thanks for maintaining the madwifi-ng experimental packages, they work 
> perfectly on my systems.


Thanks for taking the time to give some valuable feedback about them.

>
> Pascal