How about the following for package descriptions (keeping in all cases
the existing first paragraph about the range of cards this applies to).

linux-wlan-ng:
This package installs additional utilities to set up and configure cards using 
the linux-wlan-ng driver. Note that the driver kernel modules themselves are 
normally installed by the relevant linux-ubuntu-modules package. Furthermore, 
the driver and wireless card can normally be controlled satisfactorily without 
these utilities - you only need install this package if you want to customise 
the configuration sequence.

linux-wlan-ng-firmware:
This package doesn't contain the firmware files, but a script to download the 
upstream source tarball and build a deb package that contains them. Once built 
you can then install that package separately to give your system access to the 
firmware. Note that only some adapters really need a firmware file and that 
firmware files are not completely free (in the sense of freely 
redistributable), that's why this package exists. 

linux-wlan-ng-doc:
This package contains documentation for linux-wlan-ng that is not included in 
the main package. 
[no change from before]

linux-wlan-ng-source:
This package provides the full source code for the linux-wlan-ng kernel 
modules, to allow you to compile the modules yourself from scratch (e.g. using 
module-assistant). Note however that these kernel modules are normally 
installed by the relevant linux-ubuntu-modules package, and thus the source for 
that package can also be used to compile these modules for use in an Ubuntu 
kernel tree.


With regards to having common descriptions with debian, I'm not we can do this 
100%. Thats because I can't see in debian an equivalent to our 
linux-ubuntu-modules, which I think we will want to refer to in our package 
descriptions (to be completely clear to our users).

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please merge linux-wlan-ng 0.2.9+dfsg-1 from Debian main unstable
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/192772
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