Bug#536502: Debian status of crda & wireless-regdb?

[Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>]

Hi Paul,

On Thursday 13 August 2009 13:16:51 Paul Wise wrote:
> Hi Kel,
> 
> I saw a mention of CRDA in my kernel boot messages and I was wondering
> what the status of your crda & wireless-regdb packages is, any info?

My take on packaging crda/wireless-regdb can be seen/tested at:

crda:
Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-wpa/crda/trunk
Vcs-Browser: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-wpa/crda/trunk/

wireless-regdb:
Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-wpa/wireless-regdb/trunk
Vcs-Browser: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-wpa/wireless-regdb/trunk/

Comments from my point of view:
* the legal consequences of disabling crypto verification of regulatory.bin
  concern me because I simply do not know if there could be any in the future.
* other consequences of disabling crypto verification are keeping Debian
  specific patches in sync with upstream. They are pretty simple though.
* your previous comments contained something about developing a package for
  backporting to a theoretical lenny + 1/2 - I have no interest in targetting
  a package for anything other than current testing/sid and using all good
  features currently available there. If it is easy enough to make it
  backportable patches would be welcome.
* enabled use of dpkg trigger to synchronise the country name -> country code
  matrix parsed from tzdata's zone.tab file. The result is stored in
  /etc/default/crda in a section clearly labelled as automatically managed by
  maintainer scripts. All other modification to the conffile done by admin are
  preserved.

> 
> I note the release team's original freeze for squeeze is close and it
> would be a shame to leave crda and wireless-regdb out of squeeze.
> 
> PS: you should file an ITP for wireless-regdb and retitle #536502 to ITP

Am not fully committed to maintaining these packages, would file ITP's
if I was. Need to get (active) co-maintainers but haven't made a huge effort
to do that yet.

Would you be interested in being a co-maintainer or making package uploads
with me?

Thanks, Kel.