wireless-tools,wpasupplicant in -minimal

[Nafallo Bjälevik]

 Hi!

Servers do not generally need wireless, so I think we should move those Depends somewhere else. I'm not quite sure about where though.

Cheers, /C

[William Grant (wgrant)]

Couldn't they just be moved to Recommends? It's a bit silly to have these floating around on a server, or to have to remove the metapackage.

[Nafallo Bjälevik (nafallo)]

On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 03:54 +0000, William Grant wrote:
> Couldn't they just be moved to Recommends? It's a bit silly to have
> these floating around on a server, or to have to remove the
> metapackage.

I agree with this solution indeed.
--
Nafallo Bjälevik <email address hidden>

[Maarten Bosmans (mkbosmans)]

Indeed, the dependency on this package should either move to ubuntu-dekstop or a recommends in ubuntu-minimal.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Doing this late for 8.10 because otherwise we'll have to pull dbus et al into the debootstrapped set by priority ...

revno: 1258
committer: Colin Watson <email address hidden>
branch nick: platform.intrepid
timestamp: Mon 2008-10-20 17:00:52 +0100
message:
  wireless-tools/wpasupplicant -> desktop-common/server-ship (LP: #61618)

revno: 1354
committer: Colin Watson <email address hidden>
branch nick: ubuntu.intrepid
timestamp: Mon 2008-10-20 17:01:10 +0100
message:
  wireless-tools/wpasupplicant -> desktop-common/server-ship (LP: #61618)

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Furthermore:

revno: 1355
committer: Colin Watson <email address hidden>
branch nick: ubuntu.intrepid
timestamp: Mon 2008-10-20 17:18:15 +0100
message:
  dendrobates indicates he'd prefer wireless-tools/wpasupplicant installed by default, so move them from server-ship to server

revno: 1329
committer: Colin Watson <email address hidden>
branch nick: mobile.intrepid
timestamp: Mon 2008-10-20 17:18:38 +0100
message:
  wireless-tools and wpasupplicant were removed from minimal, but let's keep them here for now to minimise risk of regressions

[Nafallo Bjälevik (nafallo)]

Setting status back to confirmed since this bug still exist in latest commits.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Metapackages have been uploaded and are all on their way into the archive. If you leave this alone for a bit then we will stop having to mess around with bug statuses ...

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

I understand wpasupplicant offers more features than wireless-tools, but wireless-tools also has some command-line tools for the non-wpa use cases.