Bug 140166

Summary:	Linux-wlan-ng: removing old version
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) <genstef>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Petteri Räty (RETIRED) <betelgeuse>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	betelgeuse, hppa
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-07-12 15:46:00 UTC

The old version of linux-wlan-ng uses pcmcia, I would like to get rid of that

  08 Feb 2004; Peter Johanson <latexer@gentoo.org>
  linux-wlan-ng-0.2.0-r3.ebuild:
  Marking stable. Needed for module-init-tools fixes.

Betelgeuse has said he will not support a stable version for the 2.6 kernel and thus I suggest to remove the stable keyword so that no stable users get broken.

Current stable version has multiple issues, probably does not even build with the latest stable 2.6 kernel.
x86: ok to remove the stable one so that new users directly use ~arch?
hppa: can you please ~arch a new version or remove your keyword?

Comment 1 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-07-22 22:38:48 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)

> 
> Current stable version has multiple issues, probably does not even build with
> the latest stable 2.6 kernel.

The current stable version just dies if you try to use it on a 2.6 kernel.

Comment 2 Andrej Kacian (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-01 11:41:27 UTC

Do you want us to move 0.2.0-r3 to ~x86, or do you want to remove the ebuild completely?

Both is fine for x86@, as I can't see anything depending on this package (other than other linux-wlan-ng* packages).

Comment 3 Andrej Kacian (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-01 12:58:18 UTC

After talking about this with Joshua, I'm "back-bumping" 0.2.0-r3 back to ~x86, and it's up to the maintainer to remove it and/or request a newer, working version to be tested and marked stable.

Reassigning bug to maintainer herd.

Comment 4 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-09-01 05:14:05 UTC

thanks to gmsoft for permission

I removed all old versions of linux-wlan-ng