[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#622247: Bug#622247: iw binary should be installed in /sbin

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

tags 622247 + pending
thanks

Hi

On Monday 19 December 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Package: iw
> Version: 0.9.19-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> iw may be wanted early during the boot process, so it should not be
> installed on /usr.

Starting with libnl3 3.2.3-2[1], libnl-3-200 (/lib/libnl-3.so.200) and 
libnl-genl-3-200 (/lib/libnl-genl-3.so.200) will be available in /lib/,
which means iw can follow suit starting with iw 3.2-1[2] (to be 
uploaded soon after libnl3 3.2.3-2 hits unstable).

However given that crda links against libnl itself, some changes are 
needed to adapt crda for this new libnl3 as well. The attached debdiff 
(excluding changes introduced by the updated orig.tar.bz2) against the 
new upstream version of crda 1.1.2[3] incorporates libnl3 3.2 support 
(patch submitted upstream[4]) for crda. In addition I also bumped the 
standards version to 3.9.2 (no changes necessary) and restricted iw to 
linux-any, given that it is extremely specific to the linux kernel and 
its nl80211 API. The fall-through from /sbin/iw to /usr/sbin/iw can be 
removed in a subsequent version and a versioned Breaks on iw (<< 3.2~);
DFS (dynamic frequency selection ~= radar avoidance) related changes 
are supposed to be merged into crda soon.

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann

[1]	http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2011/12/msg00177.html
	http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2011/12/msg00260.html
[2]	Vcs-Svn: svn://anonscm.debian.org/svn/pkg-wpa/iw/trunk/
	Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-wpa/iw/trunk/
[3]	http://wireless.kernel.org/download/crda/crda-1.1.2.tar.bz2
[4]	http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg82391.html
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