@@ 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 @@ mapper. Kernel components are part of Linux-libre.")
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(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+)))