reassign 514531 iproute
thanks

On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 09:37:13AM -0500, mike wrote:
> Package: iproute2
> Version: 2-2.6.18-061002

The package name is iproute rather than iproute2, but that's nothing
like the version number of this package in Debian (currently
20080725-2). Are you sure that you're looking at the Debian package and
not something else?

> Default email address for /sbin/program is [email protected]
> 
> I'm certain that most Debian network information should not be emailed
> to this person.
> Whether this is Malware or just lazy development, this default should
> not be installed to
> root; alternatively the default can be removed with the following fix:
> 
> Line 5: [ -z "$mail" ] && [email protected]

That really is the e-mail address of Alexey Kuznetsov, who is one of the
maintainers of the Linux networking subsystem, not to mention one of the
people named in iproute's README file as an author; you can compare the
address with that in the Linux kernel's MAINTAINERS file. The only place
I can find the text you quote is in the "netbug" program, which as far
as I can tell is for the express purpose of reporting a networking bug
and does not appear to be run automatically; in that case, defaulting to
sending it to a Linux networking maintainer with sufficient information
to let him debug whatever the problem is doesn't seem unreasonable. Are
you sure you aren't overreacting a bit? Only people who need networking
help would use this, and they can hardly expect somebody to help them
without some idea of the state of their network.

In any case, the "netbug" program no longer exists in the current
version of iproute in unstable, which would make this bug obsolete,
unless you're talking about some other program that I can't find.

Regards,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [[email protected]]



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