Any objection to updating wireless-tools in devel?

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Wed Apr 11 14:44:28 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 19:04 -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> Dan Williams wrote:
> > It means a bump in the soname of the library, requiring rebuilds of
> > NetworkManager, rhpl, and kdenetwork to name a few.
> 
> My main objection is that it's a beta still.  But I suppose that people 
> in networking never want to make actual releases. 
> *cough*NetworkManager*cough*.

Care to roll 0.6.5 for me? :)  I dare you.

There's not a burning need to rev wireless-tools.  The stupid message is
annoying and there's a problem with leakage of kernel data on 64-bit
kernels with 32-bit userspace or something like that, but that can be
backported I think.  Thoughts?

Dan

> 
> Seriously, though, it would be super if we could convince both of you 
> guys to actually release stuff.  We're now going to ship a beta version 
> of both NM and wireless-tools so what is the point in calling either a beta?
> 
> </rant>
> 




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