Bug#563865: ITP: python-wifi -- Linux Wireless Extensions in Pure Python

[Henning Heinold <heinold@inf.fu-berlin.de>]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 12:46:57AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> What application will be using this?  Why use the deprecated wireless
> extensions and not netlink?
> 
> Ben.

Hi Ben,

unfornatly python-wifi are the only maintained python bindings which gives easy access
to wifi settings.

It will be used by a mobile nodes wifi-tracker I am writing through my master-thesis and
a wif-channel-assignment-daemon a colleagues is writing.

For my wifi-tracker I will try to get it into debian too, after its usefull and useable.

I am aware that wireless-api will be removed in future, but I dont have the time
now to write something for netlink stuff in python.

I hope you will let the ITP go through with my answers.

Bye Henning