| 2011-12-01 15:18:45 |
Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre |
description |
Availability:
iw is already available in Universe.
binary packages needed in main: iw
available for all supported architectures.
Rationale:
iw is required for wireless regulatory domain control. It also brings up very useful additional controls for wireless devices, some of which are already provided by iwconfig and iwlist, but in a nice, clearer format (much like ifconfig vs. ip)
Security:
CVE entries - none
Secunia history - none
Binaries running as root or suid/sgid: none
Daemons: none
Network activity: no ports opened
Does not handle incoming network data
Does not directly (not through a library) process binary (video, audio, etc) or structured (PDF, etc) data
Quality assurance:
Package works out of the box without configuration
The package does not ask any debconf questions
Debian bugs: none
Hardware: Does this package deal with hardware? - yes
Standards compliance:
FHS, Debian Policy compliant
Packaging system (debhelper/cdbs/dbs) is debhelper
Patch system is quilt (format 3.0 (quilt) package)
No packaging oddities
Dependencies:
Runtime
libc6 (>= 2.7), libnl3 (>= 3.0)
Build
debhelper (>= 7), libnl3-dev, pkg-config (>= 0.22)
Are these all in main? - yes
Background information:
The general purpose and context of the package is clear from the package's debian/control file. Quoting debian/control:
Description: tool for configuring Linux wireless devices. This package contains the `iw' tool which allows you to configure and show information about wireless networking. In the future iw will become the canonical command line tool for wireless configuration and iwconfig/wireless-tools will no longer be required. See /usr/share/doc/iw/README.Debian for a more detailed overview of iw.
Upstream calls this software: iw
It has not had different names in the past
There has been a previous MIR report for iw: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iw/+bug/321630 |
Availability:
iw is already available in Universe.
binary packages needed in main: iw
available for all supported architectures.
Rationale:
iw is required for wireless regulatory domain control. It also brings up very useful additional controls for wireless devices, some of which are already provided by iwconfig and iwlist, but in a nice, clearer format (much like ifconfig vs. ip)
Security:
CVE entries - none
Secunia history - none
Binaries running as root or suid/sgid: none
Daemons: none
Network activity: no ports opened
Does not handle incoming network data
Does not directly (not through a library) process binary (video, audio, etc) or structured (PDF, etc) data
Quality assurance:
Package works out of the box without configuration
The package does not ask any debconf questions
Debian bugs: none
Hardware: Does this package deal with hardware? - yes, wifi cards
Standards compliance:
FHS, Debian Policy compliant
Packaging system (debhelper/cdbs/dbs) is debhelper
Patch system is quilt (format 3.0 (quilt) package)
No packaging oddities
Dependencies:
Runtime
libc6 (>= 2.7), libnl3 (>= 3.0)
Build
debhelper (>= 7), libnl3-dev, pkg-config (>= 0.22)
Are these all in main? - yes
Background information:
The general purpose and context of the package is clear from the package's debian/control file. Quoting debian/control:
Description: tool for configuring Linux wireless devices. This package contains the `iw' tool which allows you to configure and show information about wireless networking. In the future iw will become the canonical command line tool for wireless configuration and iwconfig/wireless-tools will no longer be required. See /usr/share/doc/iw/README.Debian for a more detailed overview of iw.
Upstream calls this software: iw
It has not had different names in the past
There has been a previous MIR report for iw: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iw/+bug/321630 |
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