FS#51811 - [wireless_tools] Change upstream

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Luke (Gaming4JC) - Sunday, 13 November 2016, 17:05 GMT
Last edited by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Wednesday, 16 November 2016, 22:03 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Gaetan Bisson (vesath)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
I took the time to e-mail Jean at HP, and he responded telling me that he no longer maintains this package.

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In the past, I worked a lot with Guus Sliepen, the Debian maintainer, and
I see that he is still active and has patches that are not in my
version. I would suggest to use the Debian version as the new
upstream.
Regards,
Jean
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Additional info:
New upstream is here: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/w/wireless-tools/
SHA256 checksum is included in the *.dsc files for each release.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Gaetan Bisson (vesath)
Wednesday, 16 November 2016, 22:03 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 15 November 2016, 14:07 GMT
Looking at the debian package, they have several patches that are not in the upstream release. Our package is not outdated, we use the same prerelease as Debian does.

The patches that debian has are limited to debian-specific configuration scripts, typo fixes in manpages, multiarch stuff that we don't have, etc. I don't see any "must-have" patches in the debian package at this moment.

Take note that wireless_tools is deprecated in favour of iw.
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Wednesday, 16 November 2016, 16:40 GMT
Definitely sounds like a "Won't Implement" to me, we'll see what the maintainer says.
Comment by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Wednesday, 16 November 2016, 22:03 GMT
I agree with Jan. Unless there's a specific patch someone would like to have in our package (then again they're mostly typos and build system improvements), there's nothing to do. Cheers.

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