Comment 32 for bug 192772

How about the following for package descriptions (keeping in all cases the existing first paragraph about the range of cards this applies to).

linux-wlan-ng:
This package installs additional utilities to set up and configure cards using the linux-wlan-ng driver. Note that the driver kernel modules themselves are normally installed by the relevant linux-ubuntu-modules package. Furthermore, the driver and wireless card can normally be controlled satisfactorily without these utilities - you only need install this package if you want to customise the configuration sequence.

linux-wlan-ng-firmware:
This package doesn't contain the firmware files, but a script to download the upstream source tarball and build a deb package that contains them. Once built you can then install that package separately to give your system access to the firmware. Note that only some adapters really need a firmware file and that firmware files are not completely free (in the sense of freely redistributable), that's why this package exists.

linux-wlan-ng-doc:
This package contains documentation for linux-wlan-ng that is not included in the main package.
[no change from before]

linux-wlan-ng-source:
This package provides the full source code for the linux-wlan-ng kernel modules, to allow you to compile the modules yourself from scratch (e.g. using module-assistant). Note however that these kernel modules are normally installed by the relevant linux-ubuntu-modules package, and thus the source for that package can also be used to compile these modules for use in an Ubuntu kernel tree.

With regards to having common descriptions with debian, I'm not we can do this 100%. Thats because I can't see in debian an equivalent to our linux-ubuntu-modules, which I think we will want to refer to in our package descriptions (to be completely clear to our users).