Source: netcfg Severity: important Hi,
netcfg currently installs wireless-tools when configuring a WiFi interface without WPA key management. Please stop doing that. A possible solution is to always use wpa_supplicant, with wpa-key-mgmt NONE for no encryption. If I'm reading wpa_supplicant's README.Debian right, WEP should work the same as WPA2, but I have no way of testing this. I'm filing this bug so we can remove the wireless-tools binary package, as wireless-tools is dead for more than a decade already. I'll file a separate bug to also switch away from libiw-dev, which is also built from src:wireless-tools. Removing the wireless-tools binary is IMO higher prio then removing the entire stack, as we really don't want to leave users with a completely dead and no-future network setup. Chris
