Re: [PATCH 13/18] Netfilter: Multiport revision with port ranges (replaces "mport")

[Pablo Neira <pablo@eurodev.net>]

bonjour,

Herve Eychenne wrote:

>>(note: didn't update manpage, but then again, wasn't updated with previous
>>changes)
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>
>Maybe because no one stated what the manpage policy regarding the
>new revision system would be?...
>When adding every successive revision documentation of every
>match/target to the manpage, wouldn't it become severly bloated in the
>end?
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>

Hm, I think that the revision infrastructure gives the possibility of 
extending a target/match with some kind of interesting features, 
something that we couldn't do so far. However, I don't encourage the 
release of a new revision every month or something like that.

So, I think that people must have a good reason to extend a 
target/match, and in case that this new revision is considered worthy. I 
would hold it for quite some time in the SVN repository and after that 
push it forward.

If we follow a policy similar to this, the manpages shouldn't get 
bloated so much I guess.

--
Pablo