Bug#467198: madwifi-source: m-a doesn't install due to dependencies problems (madwifi-tools)

[Kel Modderman]

On Sunday 24 February 2008 13:36:28 Colomban Wendling wrote:
> >
> > What exact command did you use? What distribution (testing|sid)?
> >
> > Do you have latest madwifi-tools installed? If so what version?
> > What does apt-cache policy madwifi-tools say?
> >
> > Kel.
> >  
> >   
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using Testing.
> I've build madwifi-source with m-a suite :
> m-a prepare, build then install
> As I've done with the previous version.
> 
> Yes, I've the latest madwifi-tools from testing repositories, I've no
> updates at this time.
> My madwifi-tools version is 1:0.9.3+dfsg-3, and it is the latest from
> testing repositories (as aptitude says after an update). As you see, it
> doesn't match the madwifi-source version number.
> You can see the same at packages.debian.org for testing (and sid for
> mips and mipsel arch).
> 
> the madwifi-tools policy:
> $ apt-cache policy madwifi-tools
> madwifi-tools:
>   Installed: 1:0.9.3+dfsg-3
>   Candidate: 1:0.9.3+dfsg-3
>   Version table:
>  *** 1:0.9.3+dfsg-3 0
>         900 http://ftp.fr.debian.org lenny/contrib Packages
>         900 http://ftp.fr.debian.org testing/contrib Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      1:0.9.3+dfsg-1 0
>         -20 ftp://fr.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe Packages
> 
> It seems for me that the madwifi-tools package has to be updated in the
> repositories to match the madwifi-source version, isn't it?

new madwifi-tools has not yet migrated to testing. It seems that mips and
mipsel build daemons have not yet attempted to build the package. That is bad,
and not something I can do anything about.

Kel.