retitle 483627 RM: xsupplicant -- better alternative exists/no upstream support reassign 483627 ftp.debian.org thanks At one time there were a number of obscure EAP methods in use that were only supported by xsupplicant, and instances of buggy authenticators for which xsupplicant was capable of working around. These days there are no circumstances that I am aware of where wpasupplicant is not the better choice. Upstream for xsupplicant has undergone a complete rewrite with a strong focus on Windows (the 2.x versions of xsupplicant will not even compile on Linux). The older 1.x versions are effectively unmaintained (the last release was on 2006-10-08). Popcon suggests that usage is quite low with only 281 installations and 46 votes. I believe it would be in the best interest of our users if xsupplicant were removed from the archive entirely. Regards, -- Eric Evans eevans@debian.org
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