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

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 08:35 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us> writes:
> 
> > 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:
> >
> > dget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16409035/wpasupplicant_0.6.4%
> > 7Egit20080724.3fbda8f-0ubuntu1%7Eppa4.dsc
> 
> That command doesn't succeed. You cannot dget from the
> launchpadlibrarian. please rather point to your PPA.

Hmm, worked for me before. Anyway:
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/daniel-gimpelevich/ubuntu hardy main

> Upstream doesn't release a unified tarball, but has funny scripts that
> produce 2 tarballs, each of them containing common files. We could of
> course build from the git sources, ditching the upstream released
> tarballs, but that would make describing the version of
> hostap/wpa_supplicant we have in debian/ubuntu even more difficult.

Yes, that's exactly what I did.

> I'm not totally opposed to this, but I'm asking for comments from my
> fellow wpasupplicant Maintainers.
> 
> in any case, such a change is not appropriate for lenny. If someone
> wants to work on that before lenny release, let's do that please only in
> the experimental branch.

The experimental branch is OK by me.