[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#973241: Bug#973241: network-manager: is crda still recommendable?

[Ben Hutchings]

On Tue, 2020-10-27 at 20:58 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Am 27.10.20 um 19:48 schrieb Patrice Duroux:
> > Package: network-manager
> > Version: 1.27.91-1
> > Severity: minor
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > First I read this:
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=972994
> > 
> > Then I checked this:
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/crda.git/tree/README
> > 
> > Finally I do this:
> > > LANG=C apt rdepends crda
> > crda
> > Reverse Depends:
> >    Recommends: network-manager
> >      crda:i386
> >    Suggests: wireless-regdb
> >      crda:i386
> > 
> > 
> > Stretch has Linux 4.9 < 4.15
> > Buster has Linux 4.19 > 4.15

It took some time for us to sort out signing and direct loading of the
regulatory database, so it is *not* enabled by the 4.19 kernel in
buster.

> > But network-manager does not have the same version for both.
> > So should the recommendation be deleted?
> 
> Bringing Ben into the loop who requested the addition of this Recommends 
> in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=653706
> 
> Would be great to have your feedback here.

I think you can safely drop it for bullseye.  In addition to crda
itself, the package also contains a udev rule for setting the
regulatory domain that may still be useful, but it is not generally
needed.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken


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