Hi Loic and Aurel, On Monday 21 August 2006 21:20, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2006, Kel Modderman wrote: > > Loic contacted me on IRC with a proposal to split the tools into an own > > source package that would enter contrib, and thus be autobuilt. Is this > > something you agree with? If so, then please don't needlessly waste > > effort until the new source packages are prepared. > > Aurel suggested the split (I should have mentionned that), I suppose he > agrees with it. :)
I have a problem, and would appreciate some guidance please. In athstats.c we have: #include "ah_desc.h" This is a legally immutable file, not fit for contrib. Therefore, simply splitting the tools from kernel module source tree becomes non-trivial. Note that all other tools are okay; they are BSD/GPL and include only equally licensed headers. Only wlanconfig is absolutely essential to normal operation of the module. Some ideas I had: 1) cripple the athstats tool, so that is cannot report phyerrors derived from HAL 2) have a madwifi-tools in contrib, and madwifi-tools-nonfree (derived from madwifi source package) in non-free 3) Re-introduce madwifi-dev (arch=all) in the non-free madwifi source package, use it as a build-depends for the madwifi-tools source package that would be in contrib I prefer #3, it seems cleaner to me (no crippling or duplication) as long as it is acceptable in your opinion(s). Thanks, Kel.
