Package: iw Version: 3.17-1 Severity: normal The current package description includes the sentence.
In the future iw will become the canonical command line tool for wireless configuration and iwconfig/wireless-tools will no longer be required. I think the future is here and you can delete this sentence. Ben. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages iw depends on: ii libc6 2.22-7 ii libnl-3-200 3.2.27-1 ii libnl-genl-3-200 3.2.27-1 Versions of packages iw recommends: ii crda 3.13-1+b1 iw suggests no packages. -- no debconf information