iw package (Was: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda)

2010-03-04 Thread Uwe Kleine-König
Hello, BTW -- while we're on the topic of 2.6.32 and the next Debian release, and 802.11, do you guys ship iw by default yet? If not I highly encourage it. It should be shipped just as iwconfig is shipped. iw is the replacement for iwconfig, it uses the new nl80211 and nl80211 is used by all

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-03-03 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 04:44 +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote: Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: Can you guys upstream a package into Debian with a gitweb URL reference? If I'm understanding the question correctly, yes. We have Vcs-$VCS

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-03-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 10:47 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: FWIW, I don't create the tarballs. Perhaps we could ask Johannes to do something in his scripts that create them? Beyond that I don't see much point in checking-in a ChangeLog. It definitely shouldn't be checked into git, but rather

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-03-01 Thread John W. Linville
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 01:43:46PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: I'd suggest that 'make dist' should include a ChangeLog file in the tarball, generated with git2cl or git log or whatever. A NEWS file summarising the user-visible changes in each version would also be a good idea for

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-03-01 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 10:47 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: FWIW, I don't create the tarballs.  Perhaps we could ask Johannes to do something in his scripts that create them?  Beyond that I don't see much point in checking-in a

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-03-01 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Kel Modderman k...@otaku42.de wrote: On Tuesday 02 March 2010 04:13:25 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 10:47 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: FWIW, I don't create the tarballs.  

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-03-01 Thread Kel Modderman
On Tuesday 02 March 2010 04:13:25 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 10:47 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: FWIW, I don't create the tarballs. Perhaps we could ask Johannes to do something in his scripts that

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-03-01 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: Can you guys upstream a package into Debian with a gitweb URL reference? If I'm understanding the question correctly, yes. We have Vcs-$VCS (i.e. Vcs-Git) and Vcs-Browser pseudo-headers. Both are optional. I agree with Kel here, git2cl et al are unimportant details.

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-03-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 04:44 +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote: Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: Can you guys upstream a package into Debian with a gitweb URL reference? If I'm understanding the question correctly, yes. We have Vcs-$VCS (i.e. Vcs-Git) and Vcs-Browser pseudo-headers. Both are optional.

[RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-02-27 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
Adding debian-devel and debian-mentors. As per Paul Wise' advice I'd like to request for help with the crda/wireless-regdb package for Debian for the next release of Debian. I am the upstream crda maintainer and John Linville is the upstream wireless-regdb maintainer. Kel Modderman has already

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-02-27 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: As per Paul Wise' advice I'd like to request for help with the crda/wireless-regdb package for Debian for the next release of Debian. I am the upstream crda maintainer and John Linville is the upstream wireless-regdb maintainer. Kel Modderman has already done most work

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-02-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 23:59 +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote: I'm a member of pkg-wpa-devel and I've been sponsoring Kel for almost 4 years. I have absolute trust in him and I've even offered to advocate him to the NM process multiple times. I'd definitely agree with your assessment here and