Bug#349164: Bug#349165: O: ieee80211 -- Source for the 802.11 (wireless) network stack for Linux

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 01:36:20PM +0100, Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Mike Hommey wrote:
> > As it is now included in vanilla kernel since 2.6.14 and is impossible
> > to build without breaking the debian packaging system for recent kernels
> > (see #338775), I lost interest in packaging ieee80211. I'm therefore
> > orphaning it.
> 
> Shouldn't it then be simply removed from unstable? (likewise with ipw2200)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rene

Well, some people prefer using the upstream ones instead of the vanilla
kernel ones, because there are still issues with the version in vanilla
kernel.

Some other people don't want to upgrade kernel, and for them it's the
only solution to get these drivers. For these people, the current
drivers are better than nothing. Removing them would not be nice to
these people.

Cheers,

Mike