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Re: Bug#20445: marked as done (general: frozen has packages which depend on kernel 2.1.x)



Lalo Martins wrote:
> On Mar 31, Craig Small decided to present us with:
> [...]
> > or 2.0.x (with patch).  This is a fact of life for all Amateur Radio related
> > programs.  I have heard recently that the upstream guys will no longer be
> > supporting 2.0.x patches for the utilities, does this mean we kill off the
> > ax25-utils (and anything else that touches the ax25 sockets?)
> 
> Or maybe it's time to start doing 2.1.x packages, at least for
> experimental?

OK, I've talked to the upstream maintainer (luckily he is on irc) to get some
idea of what is going on with the ax25-utils package.

The current package, ax25-utils-2.1.42a will work with any kernel above
2.1.42 *OR* a 2.0.31 (or thereabouts) kernel with a special patch.  So saying
it needs a 2.1.x kernel is not strictly correct.

I think what Debian needs is for there to be the ax25-modules so that amateurs
can just load a module and get up and running.  It's going to be hard to 
sync with the kernel itself though.

I would propose keeping the ax25-utils in stable, as a small matter of getting
a kernel is not beyond most people.  However someone (perhaps me) should get
a ax25-module package into unstable.

As there is not going to be another ax25-module patch, I suspect that 
ax25-utils-2.1.42a will be the last utils for a 2.0 kernel.

For the next utils package, I'll follow the lead of the smbfs packager, who
has similar problems, and have two sets of packages with different names.
Annoying, but neccessary.

  - Craig


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