Create packet for different distro (DEB, RPM, PKGBUILD)

[MauroMombelli]

Commit 50befaa can b considered complete enought to be realeased on the wild

[MauroMombelli]

temporary list of requirements:
qrencode (tested on 4.0.0)
gpgme > 1.7.0 (tested on 1.10)
gnutsl (tested on 3.5.18)
iw (tested on 4.14)

[bam80]

Also, it needs Wireless Tools version 30 (beta), latest stable version 29 doesn't fit.
BTW, latest stable release was over 10 years ago, and the tools is currently considered deprecated, so it seems doubtful design choice. Was there a reason for that?
Anyway, I couldn't built it since my distro provides only stable version of the Wireless Tools :(

[MauroMombelli]

my understanding is Wireless Tool is "iw", and it still developed by the kernel mantainer: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/iw.git

That part of the code is signed for rewrite anyway, so if you have suggestion for better library please let me know!

[bam80]

my understanding is Wireless Tool is "iw"

No, these are different utils. Excerpt from Wikipedia article:

The wireless tools package is currently considered deprecated; the alternative being the more recent iw utility.

This project depends on old Wireless Tools currently, so rewriting it for iw seems would be OK

[MauroMombelli]

i'll look into this, opefully i will have some time this weekend 2018-04-23 18:27 GMT+02:00 bam80 <notifications@github.com>:

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[dkg]

i don't understand the statement about wireless-tools being deprecated. while the command-line iwlist and iwconfig might be deprecated in favor of iw, i don't think that iw offers a C library to access the same data, so it's not useful for the openpgp-skt context unless we want to spawn a subprocess and parse its output. libiw (from the wireless-tools upstream) is functional and does precisely what we want.

debian oldoldstable (wheezy), released many years ago now, has libiw 30~pre9. if your distro doesn't ship something this old, please nudge your distro to pick it up :)

[bam80]

if your distro doesn't ship something this old

My distro just ships something that stable :)
Ok, I see your point. Not sure if libiw deprecated also or not, it wasn't my statement. Maybe you are right.

[bam80]

Can it be distributed in distro-agnostic way, e.g. Flatpak?

[MauroMombelli]

Yes i guess it could but i think after 3 years there should be no problem