Re: pkg/39587: sysutils/iwn-firmware missing, or doc bug in iwn(4)

[Jaime Fournier <ober%mauthesis.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/39587; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jaime Fournier <ober%mauthesis.com@localhost>
To: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, h2m%users.sourceforge.net@localhost, 
ober%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/39587: sysutils/iwn-firmware missing, or doc bug in iwn(4)
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:30:53 -0500 (CDT)

 Hello Jeremy,
 On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
 
 > Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:49:57 -0500 (CDT)
 > From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 > Cc: h2m%users.sourceforge.net@localhost, ober%netbsd.org@localhost
 > Subject: Re: pkg/39587: sysutils/iwn-firmware missing, or doc bug in iwn(4)
 > 
 > On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost wrote:
 >
 >>     In NetBSD current, iwn(4) states (amongst other things)
 >>
 >>      The iwn driver requires the pkgsrc/sysutils/iwn-firmware package to be
 >>      installed and loaded for proper functionality.
 >>
 >>     But there is no pkgsrc/sysutils/iwn-firmware package to install.
 >
 > I found the package in pkgsrc-wip, but I didn't test.
 >
 > I emailed the committer of the manpage and the wip package.
 >
 > What is the plan for this?
 >
 I had pinged a couple of folks on icb about getting it moved from wip to
 pkgsrc proper and it has yet to be done.
 What is the process for promoting it to pkgsrc?
 
 
 -Jaime Fournier
 ober%mauthesis.com@localhost
 ober%NetBSD.org@localhost