[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#655129: Bug#655129: hostapd: EAPOL reauthentication/rekeying timeout loop when using WMM

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

Hi

On Sunday 08 January 2012, Henry-Nicolas Tourneur wrote:
[...]
> > At this moment, it has not been decided yet, if wheezy will ship 
> > hostapd/ wpasupplicant 0.7.x or 1.0, as moving to the 1.x branch would 
> > usually require a 1.0.0 upstream release well in advance to wheezy's 
> > intended freeze date…
> 
> So now if I understand correctly the situation, this bug report is a bit
> stuck. Either we have a 1.0 released soon enough or it looks quite

Basically, yes - and we need sufficient time for stabilization and 
integration (e.g. the DBus API employed by network-manager) as well 
before wheezy freezes (so it would be ideal to get 1.0.1 or 1.0.2  (or 
whatever version scheme they're going to employ for the 1.x branch) 
into wheezy before the freeze as well - in other words now'ish.

> complicated to get it working with 0.7.3 and, reading you, I assume we
> are not going to see a 0.7.4 released (on git the 0.7 branch looks
> indeed quite dead).

Three patches merged post the 0.7.3-release, no activity in the 0.7.x 
branch for over a year. I don't have further knowledge, but I'd venture
to pronounce it dead. On the other hand there aren't significant 
patches shipped on top of 0.7.3 by the big mainstream distros either,
nor has any[1] switched to the 1.x branch yet. It's also less than 
ideal that no upstream tarballs have been released for hostap_1_0_rc1 
either [2].

> Anyway, thanks again for the answer and if you have any news, I'll be
> happy to get the update :)

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann

[1]	OpenWrt (for both backfire and attitude adjustment) being the 
	notable exception, but they're following hostap.git (aka 2.x) 
	instead.
[2]	http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2011-November/024540.html
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