Package: iwd Severity: wishlist Apparently ell (ITP #895584) is now available in the archive: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ell
At some point iwd should switch from using its bundled ell to building with against the packaged version. I asked upstream who said that ell will not provide any ABI guarantees until 1.0, thus it seems less than perfect for iwd to use it at this point (atleast without a extremely strict build- and runtime-dependency). There is currently no support in iwd to even build against a system ell instead of the bundled version. The build system magic should be implemented to make this a configure switch (unless it's at some point determined shipping the bundled version isn't needed at all and the build system could just be changed to only support building against a system version of ell ofcourse). (It also seems ell releases atleast currently are driven to be made for the sole benefit of being used in iwd, and since packaging of new ell releases are lagging behind a bit that means using them would have a negative impact of being able to provide newer iwd versions in Debian.) Filing this mostly for the record and as a reminder at this point, so it can be reconsidered at some future point. (Hopefully we'll see ell 1.0 at some point, but I have no idea how far away that is.) Regards, Andreas Henriksson
