[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#429734: Please merge the wpasupplicant and hostapd source packages

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 21:38 +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> 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
> > or later kernels. I have merged them in my Ubuntu Personal Package
> > Archive, so you may retrieve the merged source package via:
> No they're not, where did you see that?

In the git repo. They are one.

> AFAIK, upstream still provides different tarballs with different version 
> numbers (although they usually are synced).

The tarballs are generated from the same source.

> I know that Jouni's intention is to merge them at /some/ point but I 
> don't think this has been done yet.

You might rethink not thinking so after you take a look at the source
package to which I linked.