Thanks for the answer. Upstream has since released wpa 2.5 which includes those patches so I'll open a new request asking for that version instead of the backport.
-- 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/1475633 Title: New upstream version 2.4 / please merge with Debian 8's wpa 2.3 Status in wpa package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: There are new wpa_supplicant versions 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 which bring a horde of improvements to eg WiFi Direct (P2P) and others: http://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/plain/wpa_supplicant/ChangeLog The 2.3 is already part of the stable Debian 8.0 release so it would be useful to sync with at least that for 15.10 (and 16.04 LTS). --- Debian stable changelog --- wpa (2.3-1+deb8u1) jessie-security; urgency=high . * import "P2P: Validate SSID element length before copying it (CVE-2015-1863)" from upstream (Closes: #783148). wpa (2.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium . * New upstream release: - fixed by the new upstream version: + wpa: arbitrary command execution via action scripts (Closes: #765352). wpasupplicant: fixed wpa_cli action script execution to use more robust mechanism (CVE-2014-3686). hostapd: fixed hostapd_cli action script execution to use more robust mechanism (CVE-2014-3686). + wpasupplicant: MAC addressing changing broken after updating to 2.2-1 (Closes: #763775). + drop ap_config_c_fix-typo-for-capabilities, applied upstream. - backport "Include ieee802_11_common.c in wpa_supplicant build unconditionally" from HEAD, to fix a newly introduced FTBS on, at least, kfreebsd. * bump standards version to 3.9.6, no changes necessary. wpa (2.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium . * New upstream release: - import suggested changes from Gerald Turner <gtur...@unzane.com> (see #718651 for details). + disable ACS for hostapd on kfreebsd-any (FTBS). - fixed by the new upstream version: + wpa_supplicant: OpenSSL: tls_connection_handshake - Failed to read (Closes: #561081). + wpasupplicant: new upstream release 2.2 (Closes: #718651). + wpasupplicant: -s option not documented in man page (Closes: #608135). - refresh patches: + drop 13_human_readable_signal.patch, applied upstream. + drop hostapd_fix-WDS-VLAN-bridge-handling.patch, applied upstream. + drop fix-spelling-s-algorith-algorithm.patch, applied upstream. - adapt build configs for hostapd/ wpa_supplicant 2.2: + sync with updated upstream defconfigs. + keep Hotspot 2.0 support disabled for the time being. + hostapd: keep sqlite3 support disabled for the time being. - update debian/copyright manually, the wpa v2 branch was relicensed from (BSD-3-clause || GPL-2) to BSD-3-clause only (for the most part). This doesn't change the licensing state as the BSD-3-clause license is compatible with GPL-2. * drop pre-wheezy /lib/init/rw/sendsigs.omit.d/ migration support, invert the versioned initscripts dependency to a versioned breaks relation. * migrate from /var/run/ to /run/. * adapt get-orig-source for wpa 2.2. * drop version qualifiers for libnl3 build dependencies, as they're fullfilled by wheezy. * drop version qualifiers for the lsb-base build dependency, as they're fullfilled by squeeze. * shorten short description for hostapd. * sort debian/control entries. * make lintian happy (invalid-short-name-in-dep5-copyright bsd) and call it BSD-3-clause. * enable DEBUG_SYSLOG and set DEBUG_SYSLOG_FACILITY=LOG_DAEMON, as requested by Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> to improve logging options for d-i and netcfg (Closes: #761922). * fix various typos around "existence", thanks to A. Costa <agco...@gis.net>, (Closes: #683636). * ap_config.c: fix typo for "capabilities". * remove no longer required lintian override (spelling-error-in-binary for the). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/+bug/1475633/+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