Control: forwarded -1 https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/854015/
On Sun, 08 Oct 2017 11:46:29 +0200 Lynoure Braakman <lyno...@gmail.com> wrote: > Package: iproute2 > Version: 4.9.0-1 > Severity: wishlist > > > Dear Maintainer, > > I am very grateful for your work on Debian. > > As someone used to ifconfig, I sometimes struggle with remembering it was the command > ip I should use now. I never could with it with apropos, and I finally figured out why. > > "ip - show / manipulate routing, devices, policy routing and tunnels" > > The description for ip doesn't mention 'network', 'address', 'interface', 'ethernet', > 'internet' or 'mac', so it's rather hard to find for someone wondering what ifconfig was > replaced with. > > Could finding ip with one of those, by including it into the name or description, be made > possible, making the change easier for people used to ifconfig? > > -- > Lynoure Braakman Hi, It's a good suggestion - I forwarded the following patch upstream: --- a/man/man8/ip.8 +++ b/man/man8/ip.8 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ .TH IP 8 "20 Dec 2011" "iproute2" "Linux" .SH NAME -ip \- show / manipulate routing, devices, policy routing and tunnels +ip \- show / manipulate routing, network devices, policy routing, interfaces (ethernet and more) and tunnels .SH SYNOPSIS .ad l -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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