Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to orphan the wireless-tools package.
I no longer have time to work on this package. This package implements a library and binary to perform static configuration of wireless network interfaces using the legacy Wireless Extensions of the Linux kernel. Wireless interfaces should now be configured via Netlink, which is what the iw package does, so ideally wireless-tools should be phased out. However, there are still some packages that depend on libiw30, which wireless-tools provides. The package description is: This package contains the Wireless tools, used to manipulate the Linux Wireless Extensions. The Wireless Extension is an interface allowing you to set Wireless LAN specific parameters and get the specific stats.