Bug#708369: closed by Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> (Re: Bug#708369: release-notes: Please mention ipset)

[Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it>]

> It's not clear to me what you think is release-notes material about
> this, sorry.

I'd have expected some subsection of Chapter 5 to say something like, say:

   5.16  Ipset and Iptables

   On squeeze systems that have xtables-addons the upgrade process
   may stop when attempting to install the corresponding wheezy
   package.  Upgrade can be recovered by removing the package.

   Wheezy stock kernel supports ipset 6 natively, so do custom
   kernels based on linux-source, provided the relevant IP_SET
   configure options are enabled.  Hence, no addons are necessary
   for that.

   Please not ipset 6 syntax changes with respect to version 4:  Now
   ipset provides for word-style rather than option-style commands;
   e.g. /ipset create $name $type/ rather than /ipset -N $name $type/.

   Iptables command line parsing is also more strict:  Using
   intrapositioned negation (`--option ! this`) is deprecated in
   favor of extrapositioned (`! --option this`).

That would have saved some downtime when upgrading.