[pkg-wpa-devel] Re: wpasupplicant: co-operative maintenance (was Re: recent upload to ubuntu (0.4.8-0ubuntu1))

[Scott James Remnant]

On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 13:21 +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:

> Scott James Remnant wrote:
> >> As a follow up thought, perhaps we could maintain the ubuntu package in 
> >> a branch of pkg-wpa svn? That way I could import fixes to the ifupdown 
> >> scripts and other enhancements to help you guys along?
> >>
> >>     
> > I don't see how that would help...  Subversion contains no support for
> > merging between branches or comparing branches; so it'd end up involving
> > more work for us to keep it up to date.
> 
> In that case, please may I request that any changes made by you guys at 
> least get announced. I see:
> 
I worked on these with siretart in a /msg window, so he was aware of
what I was doing and why.  At the same time I guided him on what other
changes I'd make, and he agreed to make those same changes to the Debian
package.

Thus after a productive few hours we'd made the Debian package identical
to the Ubuntu one anyway.

In general, from this point, I don't see any particular reason for the
Ubuntu package to diverge; other than bug fixes, etc.  Most likely the
majority of work will be done by siretart anyway, who I believe is also
a Debian uploader.

>   * Undo 0.4.8-0ubuntu2's replacement of the preinst/postinst/postrm triad,
>     which replaced the upgrade-failure proof and policy compliant code with
>     "something else".
>   * Restore change to ifupdown script that makes "wpa-conf" unnecessary.
> 
> Changelog entries like this should have been avoided by announcing some 
> sort of intent and/or patch to change this package. As little as one 
> line to pkg-wpa's mailing list saying that you've already done it (a 
> patch against the archive and brief explanation would be a bonus I guess).
> 
I've said this before, but I don't see why Ubuntu should have to
announce its intent to change a package; we're not Debian, we're a
different distribution.  You never announced your intent to change the
maintainer scripts either, I don't see why something should apply to
Ubuntu and not to Debian.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott at ubuntu.com
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