Debian Bug report logs - #519446
RM: madwifi, madwifi-tools -- ROM; buggy, non-free, DFSG variant exists

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: RM: madwifi, madwifi-tools -- ROM; buggy, non-free, DFSG variant exists

Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:53:39 +1000

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal

madwifi and madwifi-tools should be removed:
 * it is dead upstream, more than that, upstream team has unreconciled social
   problems which cripple its future development
 * it contains non-free code which has unfixable bugs
 * ath5k and ath9k are DFSG free drivers providing hardware support
   for atheros PCI hardware, shipped by linux-image-2.6.28 today

Thanks, Kel.

Message #10 received at 519446-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian Archive Maintenance <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 519446-close@bugs.debian.org

Cc: madwifi-tools@packages.debian.org, madwifi-tools@packages.qa.debian.org, madwifi@packages.debian.org, madwifi@packages.qa.debian.org

Subject: Bug#519446: fixed

Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:30:46 +0000

We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:

   madwifi | 1:0.9.4+r3772.20080716-1 | source
madwifi-source | 1:0.9.4+r3772.20080716-1 | all
madwifi-tools | 1:0.9.4+r3685.20080531+dfsg-1 | source, alpha, amd64, arm, i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, sparc

Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it).  Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
master archive (ftp-master.debian.org) and will not propagate to any
mirrors (ftp.debian.org included) until the next cron.daily run at the
earliest.

Packages are never removed from testing by hand.  Testing tracks
unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
problems.

Bugs which have been reported against this package are not automatically
removed from the Bug Tracking System.  Please check all open bugs and
close them or re-assign them to another package if the removed package
was superseded by another one.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 519446@bugs.debian.org.

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