[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#610931: Bug#610931: Please build wpasupplicant-udeb

[Kel Modderman]

On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 06:25:00 AM Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> Excerpts from Kel Modderman's message of 2011-07-27 13:30:37 +0200:
> > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:43:02 AM Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> > > OK. How do you feel about me NMUing wpa_supplicant to add the udeb? I
> > > added an updated patch for the udeb to this mail. If you are OK I'll
> > > upload this as an NMU after libnl1-udeb enters the archive.
> > 
> > I would be very happy for you to do that.
> 
> After some more investigation we (I and Otavio) decided that we rather
> want to move wpasupplicant to build against libnl3. I guess this has
> to be done at some point anyway and it avoids to have to do the whole
> work again for libnl3. So we created a udeb for libnl3 and will upload
> this soon. I hope you agree to this change. If you are against it
> please reply soon.

This is a far more invasive change than just adding the udeb. Please be 
prepared to pick up the pieces in case regression in stable functionality are 
introduced with such a change.

Doing this when moving from wpa_supplicant 0.7.x -> 0.8.x (not yet released) 
would be more appropriate in my opinion.

I am less happy about this change, but do not oppose NMU's regardless of the 
risk, the rewards may be worth it.

> 
> The only change needed in wpasupplicant for this is to set CONFIG_LIBNL20=y
> in the linux and udeb configs.

And cross your fingers that it works just the same, without any noticable 
change to the end users.

> 
> Gaudenz

Kel.