Bug#375962: madwifi: Please add a note in the description about relation with Marlow's packages

[Eric Lavarde]

Package: madwifi
Severity: wishlist


Hi,

before migrating from Marlow's packages (http://debian.marlow.dk/) to
the ones from non-free, I really hesitated a long time because it was
not clear to me what the relation between the both is: they are named
exactly the same, but have a completly different numbering scheme. So I
asked myself, which one is more up-to-date? Are they compatible? What
will the "downgrade" break? Etc...

For this reason, and assuming Marlow's packages are relatively often
used, I think that a note in the long description of the packages saying
something like: "This package is not related to the madwifi packages
from http://debian.marlow.dk/ but can replace them without expected
drawbacks." would have been helpful.

Thanks, Eric

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