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Date:      Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:10:03 -0800 (PST)
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/45317: [PATCH] traceroute(8) manpage does not mention "-P icmp"
Message-ID:  <200211151910.gAFJA3IP016145@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/45317; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Peter Pentchev <roam@FreeBSD.ORG>,
	Bill Fenner <fenner@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: logix@foobar.franken.de, bug-followup@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/45317: [PATCH] traceroute(8) manpage does not mention "-P icmp"
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 21:00:42 +0200

 On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:14:38AM -0800, Peter Pentchev wrote:
 > Synopsis: [PATCH] traceroute(8) manpage does not mention "-P icmp"
 > 
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
 > State-Changed-By: roam
 > State-Changed-When: Fri Nov 15 10:10:09 PST 2002
 > State-Changed-Why: 
 > 
 > Thank you for your patch!
 > 
 > Unfortunately, the traceroute package used in FreeBSD is contributed
 > software, maintained independently by the folks at LBL.
 > 
 No, it's not, in its current state; it's highly modified by us, and
 ICMP is the local extension.  Contact fenner@ instead.  :-)
 
 > FreeBSD does
 > not make local changes to the traceroute source or documentation, unless
 > sorely needed; the preferred way of introducing changes into the
 > traceroute package is submitting them to the LBL developers via e-mail
 > at traceroute@ee.lbl.gov, as noted in the
 > src/contrib/traceroute/FREEBSD-upgrade file.  Would it be possible for
 > you to contact them and offer them your patch?  If they accept it, and
 > it makes its way into a next release of the traceroute package, it will
 > be imported into FreeBSD soon thereafter, as part of the next upgrade of
 > FreeBSD's contributed traceroute package.
 > 
 > Thanks for your efforts to make FreeBSD better!
 > 
 > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=45317
 > 
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