Re: Please check if these packages should be removed

[Matej Vela <vela@debian.org>]

"Sebastian Ley" <sebastian.ley@mmweg.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

>> ipw2100 depends on it (along with ipw2200, but the latter is
>> orphaned).  Sebastian, would you like to adopt ieee80211?
>
> No, I think it is best, to orphan ipw2100 as well. The module is now part
> of the official kernel (along with iee80211 and ipw2200) and it is a pain
> to maintain ipw2100 with the external ieee80211 paclage. The module that
> comes with the kernel is reasonably stable so I presume there is no more
> need to package the modules separatly.

Okay, orphaned for now (#360632).

Back in January[1], the consensus seemed to be that it's too early to
remove ieee80211.  Is this still the case?

[1] <http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2006/01/msg00165.html>

Thanks,

Matej