Bug#642934: sponsorship for aircrack-ng
Hi,
Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote (02 Apr 2012 15:52:53 GMT) :
> On 15/02/12 16:47, David Francos wrote:
>> We're almost there, don't let this stop.
> Yes, seems that this issue with the license is finally being
> resolved. Thanks a lot for your work :)
Thanks a lot to everyone who made this happen! The Wheezy freeze is
planned for June, so I guess now is the right time to make sure all
this work converts to a nice aircrack-ng package being part of
Debian Wheezy :)
>> Also, I should say it, I'm making a package from the svn revision,
>> and it's much easier to package, and has much less lintian warnings
>> (if some), you can have a look at the source of the package at
>> http://github.com/XayOn/Aircrack-ngDebian/ I've written a simpler
>> (and I think better) rules file, installing also scripts and
>> "unstable" tools and updated the recommends to fit with them, also,
>> only one of the patches seemed necesary (the usrlocal one).
>>
> I will take a look at it, thanks!
Any news from this? Is a packaging review needed?
> I don't know if there is any policy inside Debian about packaging
> development branches of software,
None that I know of.
> but I guess that most people would agree that is better to only
> package stable releases.
I guess most people would agree that it is *generally* better to
package stable releases, but there are exceptions, and the maintainer
is most of the time the best person to make the final decision call,
based on their knowledge of upstream code, release timeline and
processes. If SVN revision N or M is better for Debian users than the
previous stable version, I would personally welcome a package built
from this SVN revision into the Debian archive.
> So I wonder if once this issue with the license is completely
> addressed could you make a minor release to be packaged in debian?
> perhaps something like aircrack-ng-1.1.1 with this license issues
> fixed and some other fixes/features that you feel to be
> stable/tested enough to be used on production environments like, for
> example, the commits of r2008 and r2010.
This would be great. David, what do you think?
Cheers,
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