[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#591102: iw: priority should be "optional"

[Ben Hutchings]

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.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. - Leonard Brandwein
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