References to ipchains in man pages.

Bug #577345 reported by Stephen Day
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NetTools
New
Undecided
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net-tools (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: net-tools

The man pages for netstat and ifconfig mention ipchains. This will confuse anyone who doesn't know ipchains is obsolete.

References to ipchains should be changed to iptables.
References to ipfwadm should be removed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: net-tools 1.60-23ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat May 8 10:30:01 2010
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100406)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: net-tools

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Stephen Day (sd) wrote :
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Stephen Day (sd) wrote :

Updating the English manpages is easy. Updating the German, French, and Brazilian Portuguese requires a native speaker of those languages.The non-English pages may be heavily outdated and misleading.

References to ipchains should be changed to iptables. References to ipfwadm should be removed.

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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote :

 Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

Changed in net-tools (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

still present in some manpages (but not all) in latest oneiric sources.

$ rgrep ipfwad . -l
./man/pt_BR/netstat.8
./man/fr_FR/netstat.8
./man/de_DE/netstat.8
./lib/masq_info.c

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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :
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Ken Sharp (kennybobs) wrote :

It's still here in Trusty. The upstream link is dead. I believe they use Sourceforge now.

tags: added: i386 manpage trusty
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