So I finally got to manually check first hand, and I can confirm that the latest version of iw currently in the -devel repository is indeed one that does not conflict with aircrack-ng. I still don't like that I had to sacrifice the i386 build completely to push updates to it, but the old maintainer didn't answer my inquiries regarding how he got his sdk set up to actually work with the rules file in question... so yeah.

So anyway, next up on the list, now that iw doesn't conflict with aircrack-ng, is adding iw as a dependency of aircrack-ng (air airmon-ng depends on it for making mon0). So that will be up on the list for 1.1-maemo12. I'm still leaving 1.1-maemo11 in testing until that clears 10-day QA quarantine and gets enough votes, though, unless something needs fixing.