[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] [pkg-wpa-devel] Backports of glib2.0, network-manager, and wpasupplicant

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

Hi

On Friday 30 December 2011, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need squeeze backports of the current testing versions
> of the packages glib2.0, network-manager, and wpasupplicant.
> If somebody likes to do this, I'm happy. If not, I will try
> my luck. Any comments?

Squeeze backports for wpasupplicant are not planned, even less if it's 
meant to be used by newer network-manager versions; finding sponsoring 
for regular uploads takes priority.

Backporting just wpasupplicant 0.7.3 to squeeze should be relatively 
simple (revert to libnl1, drop the udeb), but the exposed DBus ABI 
expected by network-manager is incompatible, which means a backport 
could either target squeeze's network-manager XOR wheezy's (XOR 
backports thereof). Given the implications of these DBus differences 
and the (r)dependency chain involved, I'd personally recommend to avoid
introducing this new DBus ABI to squeeze (-backports).

Do you observe a particular issue with squeeze's wpasupplicant which
might be fixable according to the stable release criteria? 

I'm curious, which features of wpasupplicant 0.7.x are you missing in 
squeeze's 0.6.10?

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-utopia-maintainers/attachments/20111230/312a3e70/attachment.pgp>