[pkg-wpa-devel] new wpasupplicant upload candidates

[Kel Modderman]

Kel Modderman wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> First of all, thanks you so much for sponsoring the previous uploads.
>
> One curiosity, did you notice that 0.5.3+20060522-2 was uploaded to 
> unstable, and not experimental?
>
> $ apt-cache policy wpasupplicant
> wpasupplicant:
>  Installed: 0.5.3+20060522-2
>  Candidate: 0.5.3+20060522-2
>  Version table:
> *** 0.5.3+20060522-2 0
>        500 http://ftp.au.debian.org unstable/main Packages
>        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>     0.5.3+20060522-1 0
>          1 http://ftp.au.debian.org experimental/main Packages
>
> While, I am not sad to see that package enter SID at all, and I don't 
> think there is need to panic about this, I need to point out two 
> important things:
>
>   1. It breaks support for the madwifi package in sid (I must haul ass
>      now to prepare a new madwifi package)
>   2. It included a kinda experimental roaming solution, wpa_action [1]
>      along with some logrotate stuff. Noone yet commented on wpa_action.
>
> Thanks, Kel.
>
> [1] 
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-wpa-devel/2006-May/000467.html 
>


And I'd like to add, this is most likely due to the changelog tag in 
that package of "unstable". Apologies for this situation.

Kel.