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Bug#1036534: iproute2: Regression: "ip mo" no longer matches "ip monitor"



Control: forcemerge -1 1036533

On Mon, 22 May 2023 00:07:26 -0400 Boyuan Yang <byang@debian.org>
wrote:
> Package: iproute2
> Severity: important
> Version: 6.1.0-2
> X-Debbugs-CC: bluca@debian.org formorer@debian.org
> 
> Dear Debian iproute2 maintainers,
> 
> When upgraded from Debian 11 to Debian Testing/Sid (Debian 12),
typing "ip mo"
> no longer matches with "ip monitor". Instead, it matches "ip moo":
> 
> ===================================================
> 
> * Debian 11:
> 
> $ ip mo help
> Usage: ip monitor [ all | LISTofOBJECTS ] [ FILE ] [ label ] [ all-
nsid ]    
> [ dev DEVICE ]
> OBJECTS :=  address | link | mroute | neigh | netconf |
>             nexthop | nsid | prefix | route | rule | stats
> FILE := file FILENAME
> 
> * Debian 12:
> 
> $ ip mo help
> 
>  _ __ ___   ___   ___
> | '_ ` _ \ / _ \ / _ \
> | | | | | | (_) | (_) |
> |_| |_| |_|\___/ \___/
> 
> 
> P.S. no real cows were harmed for this moo
> 
> ===============================================
> 
> I have received reports in private that this broke some scripts that
uses "ip
> mo" for "ip monitor".

You should really get those scripts fixed, relying on abbreviations
that happen to match is a bad idea. If upstream adds some other command
it will break just the same.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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