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


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_IE:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages iproute2 depends on:
ii  libc6        2.24-11+deb9u1
ii  libdb5.3     5.3.28-12+b1
ii  libelf1      0.168-1
ii  libmnl0      1.0.4-2
ii  libselinux1  2.6-3+b1

Versions of packages iproute2 recommends:
pn  libatm1       <none>
ii  libxtables12  1.6.0+snapshot20161117-6

Versions of packages iproute2 suggests:
pn  iproute2-doc  <none>

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