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

2010-03-04 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 17:51 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org wrote: [Luis R. Rodriguez] BTW -- while we're on the topic of 2.6.32 and the next Debian

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

2010-03-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 00:01 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: [...] I think there's a good case for including it in the 'laptop' task, but not in the standard system (desktops and servers generally don't need it). It

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

2010-03-03 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Luis R. Rodriguez] 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? It's available (version 0.9.14), but not shipped by default. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

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

2010-03-03 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org wrote: [Luis R. Rodriguez] 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? It's available (version 0.9.14), but not shipped by default. Can it? Luis --

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

2010-03-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 17:51 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Peter Samuelson pe...@p12n.org wrote: [Luis R. Rodriguez] 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? It's available

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 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 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 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