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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: iptables-restore: remove unused --binary flag
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:06:24 +0100
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Tuesday 2008-12-30 12:08, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>> Author: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
>>> Date:   Wed Dec 24 20:30:47 2008 +0100
>>>
>>> iptables-restore: remove unused --binary flag
>>>
>> I doubt that someone is using this option, anyhow I think that it would
>> be better to output a warning message to stderr that says "-b is
>> deprecated, fix your scripts". Later, we can remove it.
> 
> Requesting comments from Patrick.

Both is fine with me, although I don't see a compelling reason against
taking the safe route.