Package: bridge-utils Version: 1.5-4 Severity: minor Tags: patch Dear Maintainer,
Found a typo in '/usr/share/man/man8/brctl.8.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages bridge-utils depends on: ii libc6 2.13-35 bridge-utils recommends no packages. Versions of packages bridge-utils suggests: ii ifupdown 0.7.1 -- no debconf information
--- brctl.8 2012-06-29 20:30:13.000000000 -0400 +++ /tmp/brctl.8 2012-08-02 11:43:04.290500146 -0400 @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ protocol. This protocol is used for finding the shortest path between two ethernets, and for eliminating loops from the topology. As this protocol is a standard, linux bridges will interwork properly with -other third party bridge products. Bridges communicate with eachother +other third party bridge products. Bridges communicate with each other by sending and receiving BPDUs (Bridge Protocol Data Units). These BPDUs can be recognised by an ethernet destination address of 01:80:c2:00:00:00.
