Package: netcat-openbsd Version: 1.89-4 Severity: normal
The man page says a negative value for -q means infinity. But the code makes no distinction between negative and zero. The bug was introduced in 1.89-4, and is related to bug #502188. In version 1.89-3, -q behaved as documented (negative was treated as infinite), and the default was -1. As described in the changelog, 1.89-4 decided that the default behavior should be like -q 0. A one-line patch was offered to change the default from -1 to 0: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=10;filename=fix-quit-timer-patch.patch;att=1;bug=502188 But that patch was not used. Instead, the default value was left as -1, and the code was changed to treat negative values the same as 0. So now -q -1 is no different from -q 0. If you want an infinite quit timer, you need to do something like -q 999999999, although the man page still says -q -1 should work. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages netcat-openbsd depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-5 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.1-1 The GLib library of C routines netcat-openbsd recommends no packages. netcat-openbsd suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
