[MIR] iw

Bug #898676 reported by Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
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Bug 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, 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

description: updated
Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)
Changed in iw (Ubuntu Precise):
milestone: none → precise-alpha-2
Revision history for this message
Michael Terry (mterry) wrote :

Approved. Simple packaging, in sync with Debian. No known security issues. There are some important bugs in LP, but cyphermox tells me those are obsolete (and they look like it). He'll clean them up.

Changed in iw (Ubuntu Precise):
status: New → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Matthias Klose (doko) wrote :

2011-12-19 16:40:46 INFO Override Component to: 'main'
2011-12-19 16:40:46 INFO 'iw - 3.1-1/universe/net' source overridden
2011-12-19 16:40:47 INFO 'iw-3.1-1/universe/net/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in precise/amd64
2011-12-19 16:40:47 INFO 'iw-3.1-1/universe/net/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in precise/armel
2011-12-19 16:40:47 INFO 'iw-3.1-1/universe/net/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in precise/armhf
2011-12-19 16:40:47 INFO 'iw-3.1-1/universe/net/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in precise/i386
2011-12-19 16:40:47 INFO 'iw-3.1-1/universe/net/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in precise/powerpc
Confirm this transaction? [yes, no] yes
2011-12-19 16:40:55 INFO Transaction committed.

Changed in iw (Ubuntu Precise):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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