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Bug#538389: rfkill into wireless-tools?



On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 00:07 +0100, Darren Salt wrote:
> I demand that Steve Langasek may or may not have written...
> 
> > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 01:59:20PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote:
> [snip; ITP for rfkill]
> >> I'm choosing a git snapshot over 0.1 because it contains some
> >> functionality which will be of use in eeepc-acpi-scripts.
> 
> > It's been proposed already to integrate this tool into the wireless-tools
> > package; you may want to check with the maintainer of said package (and
> > upstream) to sort out where this is best integrated.
> 
> I'm not convinced that it should, given the current description of
> wireless-tools (for wext, basically); this would be broadening the scope of
> that package somewhat. It may as well be merged into bluetooth, AFAICS...

Or wimax tools, or 3G tools, or ... I agree with this, shipping it with
wireless tools doesn't really seem appropriate. It's really used most
for wifi and bluetooth, but the bluetooth stack now has its own rfkill
soft instance like the wifi stack too.

johannes

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