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Bug#499537: ITP: iw -- tool for configuring Linux wireless devices



On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 07:05:20AM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:

> > > * Package name    : iw
> > >   Description     : tool for configuring Linux wireless devices
> > 
> > Is this going to replace wireless-tools, or is it to be used in conjuction with
> > wireless-tools?
> 
> As I understand it, it would ultimately supercede wireless tools, but there
> would be an extremely long overlap period. During which time, I have no idea
> how they will co-operate, do you?

No :)

> You are the maintainer of wireless-tools, would you like to help with or have
> iw?

Well, I don't have any hardware that works with software drivers (yet), so it
would be very hard for me to test iw. But I would like to work together to make
sure there are no conflicts between the two tools, and perhaps to merge
functionality where it can and should be merged.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
      Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>

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