In /usr/share/man/man8/rarp.8.gz there is a link to:
    ftp://ftp.dementia.org/pub/net-tools/

  If I believe archive.org, the following URL should have been used
a very long time ago:
 ftp://alycia.dementia.org/pub/net-tools/

  I searched with the following command and didn't found any other
instance of ftp.dementia.org:

~> find /usr/share/{doc,man*}/ | xargs zfgrep -in dementia.org


Simon Valiquette
http://gulus.USherbrooke.ca

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Should it instead say "please install the package rarpd for an
alternative" instead of saying go to ftp://ftp.dementia.org/pub/net-tools/?

retitle 416695 Advertisement in rarp.8 manual
tags 416695 + patch
thanks

Hi!

This still persists, unchanged since 2007, except now dementia.org is a
content-free ad farm.

I'm attaching two patches:
  rarp.8-ad which simply replaces that text with
            "install the rarpd package"
            (there is no upstream, according to rarpd d/watch:
             # The location used to be at http://rawhide.redhat.com/,
             # but seems to be extinct now.
            )
  rarp-deletion which removes rarp and rarp.8 from the distribution;
                rarp.8 itself says it's useless since Linux "2.3",
                so the latest supported release is 2.2.26
                (or, well, you could say 2.2.27-rc1),
                which EOLed over a decade ago; it's before snapshot.d.o
                reaches so I can't say for certain w/o inspecting
                install ISOs, but I'd hazard a guess the last compatible
                Debian for it was the 2.x-series, either Slink or Potato.
                All it says is
                  $ rarp -a
                  This kernel does not support RARP.
                Let it die.

The latter yields the following debdiff:
-- >8 --
[The following lists of changes regard files as different if they have
different names, permissions or owners.]

Files in first .deb but not in second
-------------------------------------
-rw-r--r--  root/root   /usr/share/man/de/man8/rarp.8.gz
-rw-r--r--  root/root   /usr/share/man/fr/man8/rarp.8.gz
-rw-r--r--  root/root   /usr/share/man/man8/rarp.8.gz
-rw-r--r--  root/root   /usr/share/man/pt_BR/man8/rarp.8.gz
-rwxr-xr-x  root/root   /sbin/rarp

Control files: lines which differ (wdiff format)
------------------------------------------------
 [-rarp,-]
Installed-Size: [-991-] {+945+}
-- >8 --

Best,
наб