Package: dhcp
Version: 2.0pl5-19.4
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Found a verbose bit, and a puzzling word, in
'/usr/share/man/man5/dhcpd.leases.5.gz', see attached '.diff'.
Notes:
I'd gladly correct the following sentence, but its true meaning seems
uncertain:
The standard mechanisms for checking for lease address conflicts are
still followed, so if the abandoned lease's IP address is still in use,
it will be reabandoned.
The verb "reabandoned" is puzzling. It seems strange that
an "abandoned lease" could be "reabandoned". Maybe the idea was
that a lease in an inconsistant state was abandoned _again_ because it
wasn't successfully abandoned the first time. If that is so, the term
"abandoned lease" would have two meanings:
1) A lease that's successfully been abandoned.
2) A lease in use that was unsucessfully abandoned.
The fix would be restrict the vague term "abandoned lease" to sense #1,
eliminating any need for a new verb like "reabandon".
Hope this helps...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Versions of packages dhcp depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-19 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii netbase 4.25 Basic TCP/IP networking system
dhcp recommends no packages.
-- debconf-show failed
--- dhcpd.leases.5 2005-12-03 17:06:18.000000000 -0500
+++ /tmp/dhcpd.leases.5 2006-08-14 01:42:48.000000000 -0400
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@
Abandoned leases are reclaimed automatically. When a client asks for
a new address, and the server finds that there are no new addresses,
it checks to see if there are any abandoned leases, and allocates the
-least recently abandoned lease. The standard mechanisms for checking
+oldest lease. The standard mechanisms for checking
for lease address conflicts are still followed, so if the abandoned
lease's IP address is still in use, it will be reabandoned.
.PP
