Ah, if you're using Ubuntu Studio, then the package is indeed installed
by default, which is a severe problem. See bug 570828.
gnome-nettool isn't the program you're thinking of, but rather a status
applet. network-admin, from the gnome-system-tools source package, and
the gnome-network-admin
The comment about not installing the package at all is odd. I didn't manually
select the package for installation.
As far as I can tell it's part of the default install. I installed the Ubuntu
Studio flavour, so perhaps that's why it is still being installed. I've been
dist-upgrading every few
By docs, do you mean Ubuntu docs from System-Help and Support, or doc
pages you get when clicking on the Help button from the network tool
itself? See bug 575694 for the former case, which should be fixed with a
higher priority than the latter.
** Package changed: gnome-nettool (Ubuntu) =
OK, reopening then. But don't hope anybody will fix this. This package
is not shipped in the default desktop, maybe it should have been removed
on upgrade. Documentation is almost useless as it merely spells what is
in the UI, and nobody will work on that since the tool is deprecated.
And