[Bug 2068612] Re: Please remove wireless-tools from oracular

[Jeremy Bícha]

** Changed in: lubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

** Description changed:

  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.
  
  See page[4] for comparison between wireless-tools and iw. iw supports
  everything except deprecated Wireless-Extensions.
  
  See page[5] for replacing iwconfig with iw.
  
  $ reverse-depends wireless-tools
  Reverse-Recommends
  ==================
  * broadcom-sta-dkms
  * hw-probe
  * laptop-mode-tools
  * task-laptop
  * whereami
  
  Reverse-Depends
  ===============
  * aircrack-ng [amd64 ppc64el s390x]
- * lubuntu-desktop [amd64 arm64 armhf ppc64el s390x]
  
  Packages without architectures listed are reverse-dependencies in:
  amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x
  
  $ reverse-depends -b wireless-tools
  Reverse-Build-Depends
  =====================
  * networkd-dispatcher
  
  [1] https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/wireless-extensions
  [2] https://hewlettpackard.github.io/wireless-tools/Tools.html
  [3] https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/documentation/iw
  [4] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_configuration/Wireless#iw_and_wireless_tools_comparison
  [5] https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/documentation/iw/replace-iwconfig

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  Please remove wireless-tools from oracular

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