Hi, On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 08:45:30PM -0400, Decklin Foster wrote: > Excerpts from Benedikt Spranger's message of Wed Apr 07 11:35:53 -0400 2010: > > The -q flag introduced by Debian is completely superfluous and harmful. > > It causes a lot of trouble in a cross platform environment. > > Furthermore the implementation changes netcat to a non standard > > behaviour. > > I've corrected this in netcat-openbsd (1.89-4). After reviewing the > source in both packages and testing versions with the -q patch removed > entirely, I've determined that the default behaviors in *hobbit*'s > netcat and OpenBSD netcat are not the same (OpenBSD normally quits on > EOF, *hobbit*'s does not unless you add and use a -q flag). At this > point, I believe that anyone who has chosen to keep Debian's > netcat-traditional installed instead of upgrading probably depends on > its warts and quirks, so I'd prefer to only fix netcat-openbsd to make > it work as people expect and not the (arguably broken) "traditional" > way. Let me know if using netcat-openbsd is an acceptable solution for > you. Yes, that's perfectly fine. I'll bump the recommends in libvirt/virt-manager then and remove all our patches/workarounds. -- Guido
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