On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 15:16 +0100, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Friday 30 December 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 16:56 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > > Package: iw
> > > Version: 0.9.19-1
> > > Severity: important
> > > Justification: policy §2.5
> > >
> > > aircrack-ng depends on iw, but the former is optional and the latter of
> > > priority "extra". Please bump up the priority of iw to optional to
> > > match.
> > [...]
> >
> > I see that this change is pending.
> >
> > However, I would go further and suggest that iw should be standard, as
> > should crda and ethtool.
>
> While I basically agree with your reasoning, I'm a bit reluctant to
> actually promote it to "standard" ("These packages provide a reasonably
> small but not too limited character-mode system. This is what will be
> installed by default if the user doesn't select anything else.[...]"),
> given that iw/ crda are not needed on systems without wlan cards
> (basically all server class systems and a fair chunk of desktops);
[...]
Yes, true. But if 'standard' is defined too narrowly then there isn't
much of a distinction between 'important' and 'standard'.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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