Hi I've now uploaded the package. Please see the attached NMU patch.
Gaudenz Excerpts from Gaudenz Steinlin's message of 2011-07-30 04:08:32 +0200: > Excerpts from Kel Modderman's message of 2011-07-30 01:44:07 +0200: > > On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 06:25:00 AM Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > Excerpts from Kel Modderman's message of 2011-07-27 13:30:37 +0200: > > > > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:43:02 AM Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > > > OK. How do you feel about me NMUing wpa_supplicant to add the udeb? I > > > > > added an updated patch for the udeb to this mail. If you are OK I'll > > > > > upload this as an NMU after libnl1-udeb enters the archive. > > > > > > > > I would be very happy for you to do that. > > > > > > After some more investigation we (I and Otavio) decided that we rather > > > want to move wpasupplicant to build against libnl3. I guess this has > > > to be done at some point anyway and it avoids to have to do the whole > > > work again for libnl3. So we created a udeb for libnl3 and will upload > > > this soon. I hope you agree to this change. If you are against it > > > please reply soon. > > > > This is a far more invasive change than just adding the udeb. Please be > > prepared to pick up the pieces in case regression in stable functionality > > are > > introduced with such a change. > > > > Doing this when moving from wpa_supplicant 0.7.x -> 0.8.x (not yet > > released) > > would be more appropriate in my opinion. > > > > I am less happy about this change, but do not oppose NMU's regardless of > > the > > risk, the rewards may be worth it. > > I can understand your concerns. > > > > > > > > > The only change needed in wpasupplicant for this is to set > > > CONFIG_LIBNL20=y > > > in the linux and udeb configs. > > > > And cross your fingers that it works just the same, without any noticable > > change to the end users. > > For what it's worth I'm using a wpasupplicant built against libnl3 > since 3 days on my laptop here at Debconf without any problems. But as > it stands this is just testing on one single driver (iwlwifi) on one > single network. Probably some wider testing would be appropriate. > > Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~
build_wpasupplicant_udeb_v3.patch
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