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Bug#986881: iw: Incorporate useful bits of crda?

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Control: reassign -1 wireless-regdb

On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> wrote:> I 
don't really know/understand how/what/when crda did that could still
> be useful/needed, but Ben's comment indicates that at least the udev
> rule may still be useful. Looking into crda's package I found
> /etc/default/crda with which you can set a default regulatory domain.
> And in /lib/crda/setregdomain it uses that file/value to call 
> 'iw reg set "<value>"'. The udev rule calls the crda binary btw, so I
> don't know if 'setregdomain' is actually called.
> 
> This bug is basically to ensure that the useful part of crda doesn't get
> lost. I'm assuming that the maintainers who'll read this bug can
> determine if/what/how/where the useful part should be preserved.
> Maybe the 'wireless-regdb' package is more appropriate, if so feel free 
> to reassign. And if nothing needs to be preserved, you can close it.
> I filed it against the 'iw' package as I saw the 'iw reg set' call and
> 'wireless-regdb' doesn't (yet?) have a dependency on 'iw'.

Thanks for this detailed and informative bug report. I think the udev 
rule belongs to wireless-regdb, as the rule isn't really useful without 
the regulatory db, and I don't think we want to make iw Recommend 
wireless-regdb. If wireless-regdb adopts the rule then it should at 
least Recommend iw, which I think makes sense.

I'm reassigning this bug to wireless-regdb, but I'm open for further 
discussion.

Cheers,

Paride

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Bug#986881: iw: Incorporate useful bits of crda? Paride Legovini <paride@debian.org> - 2021-11-01 15:20 +0100

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