On Thursday 06 March 2008 00:56:47 Maximilian Mill wrote: > Package: ndiswrapper > Severity: wishlist > > Hello Ndiswrapper Maintainer, > > It would be nice to have a newer ndiswrapper in etch-and-a-half. > Currently i use a backport to get my wlanchip working. Maybe i'm worng, > but i think that the 2.6.24 Kernel needs a newer ndiswrapper to build > correctly.
You are not wrong, but I am unsure of the policy of updates to etch and a half. But you have raised a good point that I have not seen yet; etch and a half is updating the kernel packages significantly, but what about all the <module>-source packages in the etch archive? The current ndiswrapper package is quite a large difference from what is in etch, both in upstream and ./debian/* changes, and it is very unlikely that I backport the minimal amount of changes to make an old ndiswrapper compile (and work) with a much much newer kernel image than what is expected. These two points are barriers in my eyes to an updated package for etch and a half, so I'll seek advice further from someone. Thanks, Kel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
