[pkg-wpa-devel] Please merge the wpasupplicant and hostapd source packages

[Kel Modderman]

On Thursday 31 July 2008 04:31:30 Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
> Please merge the wpasupplicant and hostapd source packages. They are
> built from the same sources anyway, and using the hostapd source from
> the wpasupplicant package should also fix Debian bug #429734 for 2.6.26

Merging the source packages doesn't "fix" #429734, it just happens to update
hostapd version to developmental branch capable of working with patched or
_very_ specific git hash revision on one of the many wireless-* git's.

Sure the kernel ap mode stuff will sort itself out soon enough but what real
advantages does having a combined source package give us?

I can think of some disadvantage with my limited time:
* more time effort required checking binary product before each upload
* we upload wpasupplicant _way_ more than hostapd these days, do we really
  need to increase the upload rate of hostapd?

Please provide something in addition to #429734 if possible.

Thanks, Kel.