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Bug#839671: linux-image-4.7.0-1-amd64: NEWS should document conntrack policy changes

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On Mon, 3 Oct 2016, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> The kernel has warned about reliance on auto-loading conntrack helpers
> since 3.5, so this should not be surprising.

How many people do you think really peruse dmesg for low level warnings? 
Esp. considering that the kernel boot messages aren't even printed on 
the console any more.

A warning that isn't displayed anywhere is not much of a warning IMO.

In my case it wasn't even printed during the boot / firewall startup, 
but some four hours later (when I guess the first time a conntrack rule 
failed to operate in the legacy way hit), so even if I checked the logs 
during the firewall startup, when the iptables rules that don't work any 
more were added, it wouldn't have helped me.

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Bug#839671: linux-image-4.7.0-1-amd64: NEWS should document conntrack policy changes Matthew Gabeler-Lee <cheetah@fastcat.org> - 2016-10-03 19:30 +0200
  Bug#839671: linux-image-4.7.0-1-amd64: NEWS should document conntrack policy changes Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-10-03 22:10 +0200
    Bug#839671: linux-image-4.7.0-1-amd64: NEWS should document conntrack policy changes Matthew Gabeler-Lee <cheetah@fastcat.org> - 2016-10-04 14:40 +0200

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