Folks, after a couple of years of maintaining broadcom-wl-dkms and enduring
the Broadcom driver pains, I have finally switched to an Intel card. I
don't mind staying as maintainer of this package, but since I can no longer
test the driver myself, if there is a volunteer to take over, I'm okay with
>> That list is huge. I can certainly pick up a couple, but some of them
look
>> horribly outdated; is it an option to delete the ones that haven't been
>> updated in - say - 12 months just to bring it down to a manageable
number?
>> It would be a waste of resources to spend time on a package that
>> That list is huge. I can certainly pick up a couple, but some of them
look
>> horribly outdated; is it an option to delete the ones that haven't been
>> updated in - say - 12 months just to bring it down to a manageable
number?
>> It would be a waste of resources to spend time on a package that
>> Karol Blazewicz asked an excellent question. What's next, do you want to
>> adopt them?
>>
> I may adopt a few but not all. I am hoping that by orphaning them, an
active
> maintainer may pick them up and fix/update them.
That list is huge. I can certainly pick up a couple, but some of them look
I understand, no problem!
I adopted broadcom-wl-dkms. Would the people that had notifications on
broadcom-wl-dkms (the one that was accidentally deleted) get those
notifications again going forward? Otherwise I'll post something on the
forums.
Thanks!
On Monday, July 08, 2013 07:50:33
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Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 12:34:23 +0800
Subject: Re: [aur-general] Merge request: broadcom-wl-dkms,
wireless-bcm43142-dkms, broadcom-wl6-dkms
On Sunday, July 07, 2013 22:26:20 Frank Vanderham wrote:
>
Just a friendly reminder of this request I made a couple of days ago:
please let me know if there is info missing or if there is a problem:
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Frank Vanderham wrote:
> To clean up the naming and confusion around the various DKMS Broadcom
> drivers out
To clean up the naming and confusion around the various DKMS Broadcom
drivers out on AUR, please perform the following:
* merge the comments, history, etc. from wireless-bcm43142-dkms into
broadcom-wl-dkms
* merge the comments, history from broadcom-wl6-dkms into broadcom-wl-dkms
This means that
Could you please merge wireless-bcm43142-oneiric-dkms[0] into
wireless-bcm43142-dkms[1].
The primary reason for the new package vs. updating the old is that the
original package has "oneiric" in the name, which is an Ubuntu version
name. I did not know this when I first build the PKGCONFIG; myself
