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d/control: Drop wireless-tools as recommends

Sunil Mohan Adapa requested to merge sunilmohan/freedombox:remove-wireless-tools into master

Closes: #2100 (closed).

  • wireless-tools package is being orphaned. https://bugs.debian.org/963896 .

  • We use Network Manager to manage network and don't use iw* tools from wireless-tools package. Network Manager itself does not need wireless-tools package to configure and manage Wi-Fi connections. This is seen on typical desktops.

  • FreedomBox service uses NM D-Bus API to scan for available networks.

  • Code does not refer to the tools iwconfig, iwevent, iwgetid, iwlist, iwpriv or iwspy. These are the binaries provided by the wireless-tools package.

Tests:

  • After removal of the wireless-tools package, wireless scan functionality does not result in an error.

  • Not tested: Attaching actual Wi-Fi hardware and seeing the list of available Wi-Fi networks.

Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa sunil@medhas.org

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