Any objection to updating wireless-tools in devel?

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Wed Apr 11 15:27:18 UTC 2007


Dan Williams wrote:
> 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.

Sure.  Want to roll 0.7.0 for me?  :)


> 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?

Can we harp on Jean to release a final?  Making people decide between a 
beta/pre version and something that works is kind of crappy.  Backup 
plan, yeah backport the fixes we need.

How about you pull in these fixes to our RPM while I roll out a NM 0.6.5?




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