On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 11:47:30AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:08, Sven Luther wrote: > > > cycle of these drivers is not in sync, so a common driver will not be a > > good idea. Also, i don't think it gains the user much, since he will at > > most have only one ADSL modem. You could do a common meta package or > > whatever it is called which depend on all the drivers though. > > The release cycle not being in sync does not matter. Speedtouch has not > changed in the time I've been maintaining it...
Yes, but the bewan driver is still more actively developped. Also i suppose the speedtouch modem has not changed because it has gone into the 2.5.x tree ? > > > > (Notice that there is an open bug about pppoatm support in the ppp > > > > debian package, but i think it is mostly ignored). > > > > > > Sorry, I've been busy. > > > > Mmm, what is the exact maintenerial status of ppp right now ? > > For some time Michael has welcomed NMUs of ppp. Now he has given the package > to me entirely. So now I am the maintainer. At some future time Michael may > want the package back and I will be happy to hand it over to him in that > case. Ok, ... > > More seriously, do you think that the 2.4.1.uus package could get the > > pppoatm patches from Matthew applied to it without to much effort ? > > Given that you already backported some of the plugin interface stuff ? > > It shouldn't be THAT difficult as long as the patch is against the latest > version. The problem last time I looked at it was that I could only find an > already-patched version of pppd and I couldn't find the exact version it was > patched against. Ok, ... > > I can do testing and packaging, but i really don't have time to adapt > > the patch myself, also i know nothing about how ppp works internally, > > and i think my time is better spent on things i know something about > > (doing X driver developpment right now). > > That's a pity, I think that getting the patch done is the bottleneck here. Let's hope matthew's patch will help us some. Friendly, Sven Luther
