#1078925 hostapd: please add hostapd.conf.5

Package:
hostapd
Source:
hostapd
Description:
access point and authentication server for Wi-Fi and Ethernet
Submitter:
Martin-Éric Racine
Date:
2026-01-10 11:04:35 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1078925#5
Date:
2024-08-17 19:49:47 UTC
From:
To:
OpenBSD apparently got around producing a manual page for hostapd.conf.5 which would be nice to add to the Debian package.

It however comes with a caveat: OpenBSD apparently implemented an include option that doesn't exist upstream e.g.

include "/etc/hostapd.conf.local"

Which would also be nice to implement in the Debian package.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-23-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fi:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages hostapd depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers  1.65.2
ii  libc6                2.36-9+deb12u7
ii  libnl-3-200          3.7.0-0.2+b1
ii  libnl-genl-3-200     3.7.0-0.2+b1
ii  libnl-route-3-200    3.7.0-0.2+b1
ii  libssl3              3.0.13-1~deb12u1

hostapd recommends no packages.

hostapd suggests no packages.

- -- no debconf information
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