From fb9b7ce258d99bfcaedc99b13f7c9d40468b8f9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 11:42:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: wireless-tools: Describe it as deprecated.

* gnu/packages/linux.scm (wireless-tools)[description]: Explain that it
  is deprecated in favor of 'iw'.
---
 gnu/packages/linux.scm | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
index 12b754bae86..3a6c44ea69d 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/linux.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
-;;; Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014 Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
 ;;; Copyright © 2012 Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2014, 2015 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
@@ -1529,9 +1529,11 @@ (define-public wireless-tools
                  %standard-phases)
        #:tests? #f))
     (synopsis "Tools for manipulating Linux Wireless Extensions")
-    (description "Wireless Tools are used to manipulate the Linux Wireless
-Extensions.  The Wireless Extension is an interface allowing you to set
-Wireless LAN specific parameters and get the specific stats.")
+    (description "Wireless Tools are used to manipulate the now-deprecated
+Linux Wireless Extensions; consider using 'iw' instead.  The Wireless
+Extension was an interface allowing you to set Wireless LAN specific
+parameters and get the specific stats.  It is deprecated in favor the nl80211
+interface.")
     (home-page "http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html")
     (license gpl2+)))
 
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