Comment 0 for bug 898676

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