[Bug 2075850] Re: Stop shipping userspace wireless-tools tools

[Aaron Rainbolt]

Lubuntu developer here, am I correct that wireless-tools should simply
be swapped out for iw in the seed?

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Title:
  Stop shipping userspace wireless-tools tools

Status in wireless-tools package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Wireless Extensions support in the kernel has been deprecated[1] for a
  long time now. wireless-tools[2] userspace utility should be removed.
  iw[3] is considered as the alternate.

  related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wireless-
  tools/+bug/2068612

  debian-installer (and Ubiquity) have a dependency on libiw via netcfg.
  It unlikely that ubiquity will be removed from 24.10. Let's remove the
  userspace tools for 24.10.

  
  $ reverse-depends wireless-tools
  Reverse-Recommends
  ==================
  * broadcom-sta-dkms
  * hw-probe
  * laptop-mode-tools
  * task-laptop
  * whereami

  Reverse-Depends
  ===============
  * aircrack-ng [amd64 ppc64el s390x]
  * kubuntu-desktop [amd64 arm64 armhf ppc64el]
  * lubuntu-desktop [amd64 arm64 armhf ppc64el s390x]
  * vanilla-gnome-desktop [amd64 arm64 armhf ppc64el]

  Packages without architectures listed are reverse-dependencies in:
  amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x

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