Bug#884399: wifite doesn't run without ifconfig

[Paulo Roberto Alves de Oliveira (aka kretcheu)]

Package: wifite
Version: 2.0.87+git20170515.918a499-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

wifite doesn't run without ifconfig from net-tools package, but wifite haven't dependency on net-tools package.

>From command line, when type: wifite, following erros messages appears.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/wifite", line 3462, in <module>
    engine.Start()
  File "/usr/bin/wifite", line 1313, in Start
    self.RUN_CONFIG.THIS_MAC = get_mac_address(iface)  # Store current MAC address
  File "/usr/bin/wifite", line 1864, in get_mac_address
    proc = Popen(['ifconfig', iface], stdout=PIPE, stderr=DN)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 394, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1047, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

When I install net-tools package the problem was solved.

So, from current code wifite depends on ifconfig from net-tools but "d/control" file doesn't include it.

Thanks.
[]'s
kretcheu
:x



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.14.4-gnu (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages wifite depends on:
ii  aircrack-ng  1:1.2-0~rc4-4
ii  python       2.7.14-4
ii  reaver       1.4-2+b2
ii  tshark       2.4.3-1

wifite recommends no packages.

Versions of packages wifite suggests:
ii  pyrit  0.4.0-7.1

-- no debconf information