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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Warn people that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away.
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:57:14 -0400
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Rusty Russell (IBM) wrote:
> Name: Warn that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away
> Status: Trivial
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> 
> At the recent netfilter workshop in Erlangen, we was decided to remove
> the backwards compatibility code for ipchains and ipfwadm.  This will
> allow significant cleanup of interfaces, since we had to have a
> mid-level interface for the backwards compatibility layer to use.
> 
> Start off with a warning for 2.6.9, so any remaining users have a
> chance to migrate.  Their firewall scripts might not check return
> values, and they might get a nasty surprise when this goes away.

I thought I understood the "new development model" but I guess I don't. 
Are working features now going to be removed from the "stable" chain 
instead of during a development cycle?

Not a complaint, I thought the new method was regarding new features...

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    -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
  last possible moment - but no longer"  -me
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