Greetings mentors, I maintain the wanpipe package, which is a set of utilities for use with Sangoma WAN router cards. The binaries have to be compiled with a certain version of the kernel. Moreover, the kernel patches required for the drivers are not part of 2.0.36 or 2.0.37 (the package distributes these, and the admin must apply them against the kernel source). Alan Cox is working on integrating the patches into the 2.2.x kernel, but the effort is not yet complete. They are there, but the pristine source still require patching. What's worse, there are different patches for several 2.2.x versions.
Has anyone has experience working with a package that has this sort of issues? Most router admins are aware of the kernel issues, but I still have the need to have versions of the package compiled for both 2.0 and 2.2. Do I have to create a package with a new name? Does wanpipe have to conflict with certain kernel packages? Should I try to get the patches (and modules) integrated into the Debian kernel packages? The current package works fine with 2.0.3[67], but I want to upload something before the potato freeze if necessary. Also, can anyone tell me when potato will freeze and what the target kernel version is? (Sorry, there's no way I could read debian-devel and have enough time to do anything else for the project.) Assistance is appreciated, tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] | An ounce of perception, http://www.mancill.com | a pound of obscure... | (Peart)