On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 07:09:59PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 03:44:58PM +0100, Hans J. Koch wrote: > > The server runs Fedora, with an openbsd nc installed. It knows the option -U > > so I don't have the problem reported in #538799. Unfortunately, nc.openbsd > > doesn't know -q. On the other hand, nc.traditional knows -q, but not -U. > > The usage of both options in one nc commandline completly breaks things. > The issue is, that there are several netcat.openbsd variants around. > Those in fedora don't know about -q, those on Debian need it. Upstream > is working on resolving this.
Upstream didn't introduce -q, you did. If Upstream is willing to work on this, fine. But you should first revert your patch, because while trying to solve a minor problem, you caused a bigger one. > > As a workaround you can filter out -q with a simple shell wrapper on the > Fedora end. That's certainly not a serious solution. Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
