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

[Gaudenz Steinlin]

Hi 

I've now uploaded the package. Please see the attached NMU patch.

Gaudenz

Excerpts from Gaudenz Steinlin's message of 2011-07-30 04:08:32 +0200:
> Excerpts from Kel Modderman's message of 2011-07-30 01:44:07 +0200:
> > 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.
> 
> I can understand your concerns.
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > 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.
> 
> For what it's worth I'm using a wpasupplicant built against libnl3
> since 3 days on my laptop here at Debconf without any problems. But as
> it stands this is just testing on one single driver (iwlwifi) on one
> single network. Probably some wider testing would be appropriate.
> 
> Gaudenz
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