Ubuntu
net-tools package

arp manpage typo, bad author e-mail

Bug #945337 reported by Brent Gardner on 2012-03-03

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	net-tools (Debian)	New	Unknown	debbugs #668571
	net-tools (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Low	Aditya V

Bug Description

The examples header in the manpage for the arp command is spelled "Exsamples", where it should be "Examples". Also, the first author's e-mail address (Fred N. van Kempen, <email address hidden> no loger exists; mail returned, domain name not found).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: net-tools 1.60-23ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.28-generic 3.0.17
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Mar 2 21:47:32 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
SourcePackage: net-tools
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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lp://staging/~kroq-gar78/ubuntu/precise/net-tools/fix-945337

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Brent Gardner (mongo02) wrote on 2012-03-03:

Dependencies.txt Edit (402 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (141 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Robert Roth (evfool) on 2012-03-03

Changed in net-tools (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed
importance:	Undecided → Low
tags:	added: manpage
tags:	added: bitesize string-fix

Benjamin Kerensa (bkerensa) on 2012-03-05

tags:

removed: bitesize

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Benjamin Kerensa (bkerensa) wrote on 2012-03-05:

The typo in this bug seems non-existent at this point as such I have remove the bitesize tag... However the authors e-mail continues to be non-working so perhaps a patch could be submitted upstream to remove the author e-mail.

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Aditya V (kroq-gar78) wrote on 2012-03-24:

I still have the "EXSAMPLES" bug. I'll fix that one. Also, should this bug be separated into two separate ones (one for typo, one for email)?

Changed in net-tools (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → kroq-gar78 (kroq-gar78)
status:	Confirmed → In Progress

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Aditya V (kroq-gar78) wrote on 2012-03-24:

Ok. Looks like the "EXSAMPLES" bug is in a debian patch ('debian/patches/local-manpages.patch')... this is what it says:

"@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ flag. Permanent entries are marked with
and published entries have the
.B P
flag.
-.SH EXAMPLES
+.SH EXSAMPLES"

that's part of the patch (the whole patch is huge...). Maybe they were thinking of saying "SAMPLES" instead of "EXAMPLES"? I'm not going to do anything with this because I'm not sure which is right.

Changed in net-tools (Ubuntu):
assignee:	kroq-gar78 (kroq-gar78) → nobody
status:	In Progress → Confirmed

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Brent Gardner (mongo02) wrote on 2012-03-24:

EXAMPLES is used in the route manpage (also part of net-tools), and SAMPLES is not used anywhere in the package.

Maybe the bad e-mail is not a bug, as it shows up in almost all the other packages, and may just be the "last known good e-mail". If so, does that warrant removing the e-mail?

Aditya V (kroq-gar78) on 2012-03-29

Changed in net-tools (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → kroq-gar78 (kroq-gar78)

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Aditya V (kroq-gar78) wrote on 2012-03-29:

I'll report the bug in Debian in a little.

Aditya V (kroq-gar78) on 2012-04-12

no longer affects:

net-tools (Debian)

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Benjamin Kerensa (bkerensa) wrote on 2012-04-13:

Notably to resolve the invalid e-mail it should be deprecated unless someone really wants to search for the authors new e-mail confirm it as valid and add the new one.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2012-04-13