Hi Gaudenz et all,

Am Freitag 29 Juli 2011, 21:55:23 schrieb Gaudenz Steinlin:
> To add WPA wireless configuration support in d-i we need wpa_supplicant
> and thus libnl3 (wpa_supplicant is goning to be converted to libnl3
> soon). For this we need an udeb version of libnl3.
> 
> We are currently at Debconf working on a patch for your package and will
> probably submit it tomorrow. We want to ask you if you would agree to an
> NMU for this.
Sure NMU all you want :-)

> This is quite urgent for us because the libnl3-udeb has to enter the
> archive first so that we can build wpasupplicant against it and then the
> d-i component (netcfg) against the wpasupplicant-udeb.
> 
> Our patch will modify your CDBS rules file to use the CDBS flavour
> functionality to build a special version for the udeb. For this to work
> we also need a patch from the upstream git repository to be able to
> build the library outside of the source tree.
sure ... libnl3's predecessor (libnl2) was a git snapshot for a long time

so, go ahead and it seems I will get to know another CDBS functionality I 
didn't know of yet (flavours).

Heiko



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