[Buildroot] [PATCH] lpppd: new package
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sat Apr 1 21:05:05 UTC 2017
Stefan, All,
On 2017-04-01 18:40 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Mon, 2 Jan 2017 23:38:24 +0100, stefan.nickl at gmail.com wrote:
> > From: Stefan Nickl <Stefan.Nickl at gmail.com>
> >
> > After the official github repository for PPP has not seen
> > any activity for a long time, I've created a fork that
> > tries to do some modernization and shed some legacy.
> > For more info, please see https://github.com/snickl/lpppd
> >
> > It is inteded as a drop-in replacement for the original PPP,
> > therefore I've marked it as conflicting with the existing pppd
> > package.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Nickl <Stefan.Nickl at gmail.com>
>
> I do appreciate your interest in making the pppd development active
> again. However, at this point, I don't see what is the benefit of using
> lpppd over pppd, and having two separate packages is a bit annoying.
> Therefore, I would prefer to wait for lpppd to gain some traction
> before packaging it in Buildroot.
I kind of agree with Thomas here.
lpppd is a new fork of a well-established project, so it will have to
offer enough of an edge before it can displace pppd.
However, I agree with you that there is no activity in upstream pppd.
Maybe you could talk with upstream to adopt the package instead of
forking?
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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