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Changelog

 wireless-tools (30~pre9-22) unstable; urgency=medium
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   * ITA upload. (Closes: #963896)
   * debian/control: Change Maintainer to Ahmed Alaoui.
   * debian/control: Bump Standards-Version to 4.7.4.
   * debian/control: Bump debhelper-compat from 12 to 13.
   * debian/control: Fix version-substvar-for-external-package lintian
     error by hardcoding version in Conflicts field.
   * debian/rules: Fix cross-build multiarch directory misbuild.
     (Closes: #913291)
   * debian/copyright: Convert to DEP-5 machine-readable format.
     Replace FSF postal address with URL.
   * debian/patches: Add DEP-3 headers to all patches missing them.
     Set Forwarded: not-needed for all Debian-specific patches.
   * debian/patches: Add fix-manpage-typos.patch correcting grammar in
     iwconfig.8 and iwgetid.8 man pages.
   * debian/wireless-tools.lintian-overrides: Add override for
     maintainer-script-without-set-e false positive.
   * debian/libiw30t64.lintian-overrides: Add override for
     package-name-doesnt-match-sonames (t64 transition rename).
   * debian/not-installed: Add ifrename files removed in -20 but still
     built by upstream.
   * debian/wireless-tools.if-pre-up: Fix bin-sbin-mismatch, use
     /usr/sbin/iwconfig instead of /sbin/iwconfig.
   * debian/rules: Enable full hardening via DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS
     and DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND for fortify functions.
   * debian/control: Replace XC-Package-Type with Package-Type for udebs.
   * debian/control: Remove redundant Section field from wireless-tools
     binary package.
   * debian/watch: Add watch file with pgpmode=none, upstream has ceased.
   * debian/upstream/metadata: Add upstream metadata file.

QA information

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  Package uses debhelper-compat
  Debhelper compatibility level 13
• –
  A watch file is present but doesn't work

  Warnings:

  In debian/watch no matching files for watch line https://hewlettpackard.github.io/wireless-tools/Tools.html wireless-tools-(\d[\d.]*).tar.gz

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  Package is not native

  Format:

  3.0 (quilt)

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  "Maintainer" email is the same as the uploader
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  Package has lintian warnings
  libiw30-udeb udeb

  • I hardening-no-fortify-functions
    • [usr/lib/libiw.so.30]

  libiw30t64

  • I conflicts-with-version
    • libiw30 (<< 30~pre9)
  • I no-symbols-control-file
    • usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libiw.so.30
  • O package-name-doesnt-match-sonames
    • libiw30 (override comment: libiw30t64 is the 64-bit time_t transition rename of libiw30)

  wireless-tools

  • O maintainer-script-without-set-e
    • [postinst] (override comment: Scripts use #!/bin/sh -e which is equivalent to set -e)
    • [preinst] (override comment: Scripts use #!/bin/sh -e which is equivalent to set -e)

  wireless-tools source

  • W newer-standards-version
    • 4.7.4 (current is 4.7.3)
  • X debian-watch-does-not-check-openpgp-signature
    • [debian/watch]

  wireless-tools-udeb udeb

  • I hardening-no-fortify-functions
    • [usr/sbin/iwconfig]
    • [usr/sbin/iwgetid]
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  Package closes ITA bugs
  • src:wireless-tools:
    • #913291 (Normal): wireless-tools misbuilds: installs to build architecture multiarch directory
  • wireless-tools:
    • #963896 (Normal, ITA): ITA: wireless-tools -- Tools for manipulating Linux Wireless
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  Package is already in Debian
  • The package uploader is not currently maintaining wireless-tools in Debian
  • Last upload was on the 2026-03-30
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  d/copyright is in DEP5 format

  Upstream Contact:	Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
  Licenses:	GPL-2+, LGPL-2.1+

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