I think that's just a matter of timing, given that we are already past feature freeze on an LTS. There is certainly interest in getting this into Debian as well.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to wpa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1099755 Title: [FFE] Upgrade wpa_supplicant from 1.0 to 2.1 Status in “wpa” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “wpa” package in Debian: New Bug description: New releases of wpa_supplicant are available: 1.1 (released 2012-11-06) and 2.0 (released 2013-01-12) and 2.1 (released 2014-02-04). 2.1 contains a number of bugfixes relevant to frequent disconnects some might be seeing on networks where there is a lot of roaming, some IBSS (ad-hoc) fixes, etc. http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2014-February/029440.html To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/+bug/1099755/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp