[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#718651: Bug#718651: Bug#718651: Built hostapd/wpasupplicant 2.1 (patch)

Stefan Lippers-Hollmann s.L-H at gmx.de
Sat May 31 21:13:41 UTC 2014


Hi

On Saturday 31 May 2014, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> On Saturday 31 May 2014, Gerald Turner wrote:
> > Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.L-H at gmx.de> writes:
> > > On Saturday 31 May 2014, Gerald Turner wrote:
[...]
> > Would you like me to spend some time reconstructing a DEP-5 copyright
> > file for 2.1, or would that also be wasted effort?
> 
> It doesn't make sense to start collecting the copyright information 
> from the 2.1 release, as meanwhile 28 files changed their copyright 
> (new years, typically 2014, added), 24 new files were added + the whole
> new subdirectory hs20/ (which is fortunately licensed rather uniformly)
> and with 6 files being completely removed. If we already had this DEP-5
> listing for 2.1, it would be reasonable to update it, but when starting
> from scratch, it only makes sense to start from current upstream HEAD 
> (and then to use git diff <hash>..hostap_2_2, to fill up the gaps until
> v2.1 gets tagged. I'm not asking you to spend time on this, as I know
> far too well how demotivating this is, but I certainly wouldn't say no
> to a patch either. 

Just as a hint, I have just[1] updated debian/get-orig-source to work 
with wpa 2.2~. Using a version number like e.g.
	2.1+git20140531.1+147848e-1
then fetches the according upstream tarball.

Index: debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- debian/changelog    (revision 1866)
+++ debian/changelog    (working copy)
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-wpa (1.1-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+wpa (2.1+git20140531.1+147848e-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
   * NOT RELEASED YET
   * drop pre-wheezy /lib/init/rw/sendsigs.omit.d/ migration support, invert the

wpa/trunk$ mkdir ../tarballs
wpa/trunk$ debian/rules get-orig-source
[...]
SUCCESS: New upstream tarball has been saved at ../tarballs/wpa_2.1+git20140531.1+147848e.orig.tar.xz
wpa/trunk$ 

See debian/README.source[2] for the finer details.

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann

[1]	svn r1866 of
	Vcs-Svn: svn://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-wpa/wpa/trunk/
	Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-wpa/wpa/trunk/
	http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-wpa/wpa/trunk/?view=revision&revision=1866
[2]	http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-wpa/wpa/trunk/debian/README.source?view=markup
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