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d/control: Drop wireless-tools as recommends

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Closes: #2100.

- wireless-tools package is being orphaned. https://bugs.debian.org/963896 .

- We use Network Manager to manage network and don't use iw* tools from
wireless-tools package. Network Manager itself does not need wireless-tools
package to configure and manage Wi-Fi connections. This is seen on typical
desktops.

- FreedomBox service uses NM D-Bus API to scan for available networks.

- Code does not refer to the tools iwconfig, iwevent, iwgetid, iwlist, iwpriv or
iwspy. These are the binaries provided by the wireless-tools package.

Tests:

- After removal of the wireless-tools package, wireless scan functionality does
not result in an error.

- Not tested: Attaching actual Wi-Fi hardware and seeing the list of available
Wi-Fi networks.

Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org>
Reviewed-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>
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@ -176,8 +176,6 @@ Recommends:
tcpdump,
# Basic editor, VIM style
vim-tiny,
# iwconfig, iwlist and other wireless network tools
wireless-tools,
# Priority: standard
whois,
# Basic editor, Emacs style