[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#806889: Bug#806889: wpasupplicant: New upstream version (2.5)

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

Hi

On 2016-05-01, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> severity 806889 important
> thanks
> 
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 03:34:42PM +0100, Julian Wollrath wrote:
> > please package the new upstream version (2.5). A patch that updates the
> > debian folder accordingly is attached.  
> 
> I'm raising the severity, considering:
> - Debian is at v2.3, two major upstream releases behind.
> - The last maintainer upload happened over a year ago.
> - The package has since seen 3 NMUs.
> - Upstream released 2.4 back in October 2014(!) and 2.5 in
>   September 2015.
> - This wishlist bug report is 5 months old.
> 
> Moreover, there are several open bug reports that may have been fixed by
> a new version (e.g. #815121) or can be easily fixed or closed (e.g.
> #729934).

#729934 will indeed by fixed by the next upload/ binNMU, thanks to the
new dbgsym packages introduced by dh.

> Please work on this package soon, or RFH/O it. It's a far too important
> package to be in such a sad state.
> 
> Warmly,
> Faidon
> (ex-maintainer of hostapd and past sponsor of wpasupplicant)

I'm still debugging the 4addr regression mentioned in my previous mail,
given the rather unfortunate approach to reproduce it, testing takes
about a week for each iteration (unless it fails early by chance, so
far I've seen time to failure up to 3-4 days, even though it often 
within hours). Replacing one bug with another doesn't sound like a good
tradeoff to me.

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
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