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0009556Kali LinuxKali Package Improvementpublic2026-02-19 16:232026-03-04 08:19
Reportermacronym Assigned Toarnaudr  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status closedResolutionwon't fix 
Summary0009556: Improve fierce manpage
Description

I was trying to learn how to use fierce and noticed the manpage can be more intuitive/clear.

In particular,

--traverse TRAVERSE

It's not clear what form TRAVERSE should be. It could be changed to --traverse NUM and the description of it could incorporate that such as:

"Perform a reverse DNS lookup on NUM IP addresses..."

And likewise for any other ambiguous arguments.

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kali-bugreport

kali-bugreport

2026-02-19 17:48

reporter   ~0021365

Last edited: 2026-02-19 17:49

Seems directly imported by Kali team from Debian:

https://pkg.kali.org/pkg/fierce
https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-security-team/fierce/-/blob/debian/master/debian/fierce.1

so probably needs to be reported to:

https://bugs.debian.org/fierce
arnaudr

arnaudr

2026-02-25 15:42

manager   ~0021388

Correct, the package is maintained in Debian's pkg-security team, so you could open a bug on the Debian bug tracker.

I also see that the man page was written by the package maintainers, it doesn't come from upstream. Maybe you can go as far as improve the man page by yourself and open a merge request at https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-security-team/fierce/ ?

If ever you do so, make sure to CC @arnaudr or @sbrun, or ping again over here, otherwise we might miss it.
arnaudr

arnaudr

2026-03-04 08:19

manager   ~0021418

Last edited: 2026-03-04 08:19

Done at https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-security-team/fierce/-/merge_requests/1! Thanks for your contribution!

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2026-02-19 16:23 macronym New Issue
2026-02-19 17:48 kali-bugreport Note Added: 0021365
2026-02-19 17:49 kali-bugreport Note Edited: 0021365
2026-02-25 15:42 arnaudr Note Added: 0021388
2026-02-25 15:43 arnaudr Assigned To => arnaudr
2026-02-25 15:43 arnaudr Status new => closed
2026-02-25 15:43 arnaudr Resolution open => won't fix
2026-03-04 08:19 arnaudr Note Added: 0021418
2026-03-04 08:19 arnaudr Note Edited: 0021418