Re: Ubuntu regulatory database

[Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 08:08:01AM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 06:26:34PM +0100, Nuno Gonçalves wrote:
> >> I was surprised that the wireless regdb provided with Ubuntu 15.04 is
> >> almost 2 years old.
> >> 
> >> Are you aware of the reason Ubuntu is not providing a updated regdb by default?
> >
> > This doesn't really seem on topic for the mailing list as it's a distro
> > issue.
> >
> > But yes, it recently came to my attention that our distro package hadn't
> > been updated in a while (I don't maintain the distro package and
> > obviously wasn't paying close enough attention). It will be updated
> > soon.
> 
> Oh, so does this mean that the old regdb doesn't support 80 MHz
> channels? Is there any way to make it easier to update the regdb in
> older Ubuntu versions?

It's likely we'll start pulling in updates on a continuing basis for as
long as a release is supported. It's been on the list of things to get
worked out right after 15.04 releases, i.e. this week.