This bug was fixed in the package wireless-tools - 30~pre9-17ubuntu2
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wireless-tools (30~pre9-17ubuntu2) oracular; urgency=medium
* Removing wireless-tools userspace package (LP: #2075850)
-- Ravi Kant Sharma <ravi.kant.sha...@canonical.com> Fri, 09 Aug 2024
12:59:03 +0200
** Changed in: wireless-tools (Ubuntu)
Status: In Progress => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2075850
Title:
Stop shipping userspace wireless-tools tools
Status in wireless-tools 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.
related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wireless-
tools/+bug/2068612
debian-installer (and Ubiquity) have a dependency on libiw via netcfg.
It unlikely that ubiquity will be removed from 24.10. Let's remove the
userspace tools for 24.10.
$ 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
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