Um 11:21 Uhr am 26.02.06 schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 10:16:48PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote:

>> Now that the new madwifi driver has entered Debian and has
>> obsoleted the old one, please consider recompiling wpasupplicant
>> with the new madwifi-ng support using madwifi-dev.
 
> This won't be possible, because madwifi-dev is in non-free, and packages
> in main may not build-depend on packages on non-free. And I'd rather not
> move madwifi to contrib.

This is understandable yet quite sad.
 
> But, TBH, I don't really get why madwifi-dev is non-free anyway. 

Could this be because of the binary HAL used by the madwifi-code? Can a 
package be in contrib if the source is in non-free?

S°

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