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Requirements

1. Availability:

   • https://launchpad.net/~timg-tpi/+archive/ppa/+files/wireless-crda_1.4.dsc

   • binary packages needed in main: wireless-crda

   • available for all supported architectures.

2. Rationale:

   • wireless-crda is required for the kernel mac80211 to verify wireless regulatory domain settings.

3. Security:

   • N/A - none

   • Udev binary running as root or suid/sgid: /usr/sbin/crda

   • Daemons: none

   • Network activity: no ports opened

   • Does not handle incoming network data

   • Does directly (not through a library) process binary structured data
   • Source code review performed by: Scott Remnant

4. Quality assurance:

   • Package works out of the box without configuration

   • The package does not ask any debconf questions

   • Hardware: Does this package deal with hardware? - no

5. Standards compliance:

   • FHS, Debian Policy compliant

   • Packaging system (debhelper/cdbs/dbs) is debhelper

   • Patch system is dpatch

   • No packaging oddities

6. Dependencies:

   • Runtime
     • none
   • Build

     • debhelper (>= 7), pkg-config, libgcrypt11-dev, libnl-dev

   • Are these all in main? - yes

7. Background information:

   • The general purpose and context of the package is clear from the package's debian/control file. Quoting debian/control:

     • Description: This package provides the CRDA udev agent for wireless drivers to determine the regulatory domain channel and power settings.

   • Upstream calls this software: wireless-crda

   • It has not had different names in the past

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