retitle 145798 ITP: netcat-openbsd -- TCP/IP swiss army knife reassign 145798 wnpp thanks
Due to feature requests (UNIX domain sockets, SOCKS) that are difficult to implement in the current, aging netcat code base, I have decided to once again look into packaging OpenBSD's version. At the present date it seems very mature and has been used by Fedora for several years. I will continue attempting to keep "classic" netcat functional for the hardcore traditionalists (yes, there are a few open patches...), and will not change any defaults until at least lenny+1. A transition plan will be worked out soon in concert with Ubuntu (who are interested in moving on this more quickly). Details for the netcat-openbsd package will be essentially the same except for a note about its origin, so I have not added the standard ITP boilerplate while retitling this bug. I hope no one minds. Soren Hansen writes: > > I didn't want to replace what we have, but if this bug is really an > > RFP, I'll check it out, see if there's anything to be done to make > > using the alternatives system work, and put a package together. Ping > > me again if this isn't ready by the end of the week. > > Consider yourself pinged. :) > > I took the liberty of grabbing Fedora's packages as they're based on > OpenBSD's implementation and added a patch to maintain full command line > argument compatibility. > > You can find it at: > > http://people.ubuntu.com/~soren/upload/netcat/netcat_1.84-1_source.changes > > -- > Soren Hansen > Ubuntu Server Team > http://www.ubuntu.com/ -- things change. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
