[MIR] rfkill

Binary package hint: rfkill

Availability:
The package is already in universe, and builds correctly for all architectures.

Rationale:
The 'rfkill' utility is already used by a large part of our user base.
I believe rfkill should be promoted to main, because it has for a long while been included in wireless-tools (since pre-Lucid), and since been packaged in its own source package by Debian. Using the proper source package would simplify the maintenance of wireless-tools, rfkill, and reduce unnecessary delta from Debian for wireless-tools.

Security:
I could not find security advisories relevant to rfkill. The package and utility appears to be fairly simple with a low risk of security incidents.

Quality assurance:
After installing the package, the 'rfkill' utility is immediately usable, and a clear manual page is provided. There are no outstanding bugs that gravely affect functionality: most bugs related to rfkill will likely be caused by drivers erroneously handling kernel rfkill information than caused by the utility directly.

Upstream bug tracker: bugs are handled in the Linux-wireless mailing list: <email address hidden>
Debian bugs for rfkill: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=rfkill
Ubuntu bugs for rfkill: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rfkill

UI standards:
Rfkill is a command-line utility that does not appear to be translated yet. Given the complexity of the application, I think it would be trivial to add though.

Dependencies:
All build and binary dependencies are in main (libc6, debhelper).

Standards compliance:
The package appears to meet the FHS and Debian Policy standards. As opposed to the copy of rfkill in wireless-tools, the rfkill source package appears to install its binaries in /usr/sbin rather than /sbin, but it seems like this is reasonable given that in standard cases rfkill would not be a critical application for system maintenance or recovery.

Maintenance:
'rfkill' is small command-line program which does not need very much maintenance effort and appears to be well maintained in Debian.

Background information:
All the relevant information about purpose of the rfkill package appears to be well documented in the package's description.