[Bug 2069060] Re: Remove wireless-tools dependency

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This bug was fixed in the package linssid - 3.6-8ubuntu1

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linssid (3.6-8ubuntu1) oracular; urgency=medium

  * removing wireless-tools dependency (LP: #2069060)

 -- Ravi Kant Sharma <ravi.kant.sharma at canonical.com>  Tue, 11 Jun 2024
16:50:45 +0200

** Changed in: linssid (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
   Remove wireless-tools dependency

Status in linssid package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

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.

  
  wireless-tools is deprecated and is being removed from 24.10 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wireless-tools/+bug/2068612

  [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

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