Package: iproute2
Version: 6.15.0-1
Severity: normal
The documentation of "ip route delete" in the ip-route(8) man page is
incorrect. The man page says:
ip route delete
delete route
ip route del has the same arguments as ip route add, but their
semantics are a bit different.
Key values (to, tos, preference and table) select the route to
delete. If optional attributes are present, ip verifies that they
coincide with the attributes of the route to delete. If no route
with the given key and attributes was found, ip route del fails.
But the behavior is unclear when several routes match the argument.
Above, the singular is used, so I assume that a single route will
be deleted (this is what I can observe). However, in such a case,
it should say "a route", not "the route", because the route is not
completely identified. Or better, say which route will be deleted.
Note that the vpnc-script script of vpnc-scripts for VPNC and
OpenConnect assumes that "ip route del ..." will delete all the
matching routes:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1107738
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.0
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500,
'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'),
(500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.32-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages iproute2 depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.91
ii libbpf1 1:1.5.0-3
ii libc6 2.41-8
ii libcap2 1:2.75-8
ii libcap2-bin 1:2.75-8
ii libdb5.3t64 5.3.28+dfsg2-9
ii libelf1t64 0.192-4
ii libmnl0 1.0.5-3
ii libselinux1 3.8.1-1
ii libtirpc3t64 1.3.6+ds-1
ii libxtables12 1.8.11-2
iproute2 recommends no packages.
Versions of packages iproute2 suggests:
ii python3 3.13.4-1
-- debconf information:
iproute2/setcaps: false
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