Branko Vukelic schrieb: >> If there is no stable version for a package yet, but it is widely used, >> then using a development version is okay as well (Example: I added the >> iwl4965 driver when it was in a very early stage, because people needed it). > > I don't know about that package, because I've never used it, but was > it placed in [extra] or [unstable]? AFAIR, the unstable packages do > not replace packages from [core] or [extra], so, IMHO, it is safe to > put such packages in unstable.
It is the iwlwifi package. It was placed in [extra], but then moved to core/support, because we wanted wireless drivers on our new core install CD (which in case you haven't noticed, they are now: You can install ndiswrapper, madwifi, Intel drivers or Ralink drivers directly from the Core CD, so you can go online directly without manually getting packages from the ftp). Putting it in unstable and later moving it to extra when it was stable seemed pointless to me. It will be deleted anyway when we move to 2.6.24 in ~3 months.
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