This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-gnome-meta - 0.100
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ubuntu-gnome-meta (0.100) oracular; urgency=medium
* Refreshed dependencies
* Added fontconfig to desktop
* Added fonts-noto-color-emoji to desktop-recommends
* Added fonts-noto-core to desktop-recommends
* Added iw to desktop
* Removed fonts-freefont-ttf from desktop
* Removed fonts-indic from desktop-recommends
* Removed fonts-kacst-one from desktop-recommends
* Removed fonts-khmeros-core from desktop-recommends
* Removed fonts-lao from desktop-recommends
* Removed fonts-lklug-sinhala from desktop-recommends
* Removed fonts-sil-abyssinica from desktop-recommends
* Removed fonts-sil-padauk from desktop-recommends
* Removed fonts-thai-tlwg from desktop-recommends
* Removed fonts-tibetan-machine from desktop-recommends
* Removed kerneloops from desktop-recommends
* Removed wireless-tools from desktop (LP: #2068612)
-- Jeremy Bícha <jbi...@ubuntu.com> Thu, 29 Aug 2024 08:48:14 -0400
** Changed in: ubuntu-gnome-meta (Ubuntu)
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2068612
Title:
Please remove wireless-tools from oracular
Status in kubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in lubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in ubuntu-gnome-meta package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in wireless-tools package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
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.
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]
* kubuntu-desktop [amd64 arm64 armhf ppc64el]
* lubuntu-desktop [amd64 arm64 armhf ppc64el s390x]
* vanilla-gnome-desktop [amd64 arm64 armhf ppc64el]
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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