Hello Stefan, or anyone else affected, Accepted netcat-openbsd into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netcat- openbsd/1.187-1ubuntu0.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users. If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed. Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance! ** Changed in: netcat-openbsd (Ubuntu Bionic) Status: Triaged => Fix Committed ** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to netcat-openbsd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1767283 Title: nc doesn't support "-s IP" option Status in netcat-openbsd package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in netcat-openbsd source package in Bionic: Fix Committed Status in netcat-openbsd package in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: [Impact] * This worked in former relases, so from a LTS->LTS upgraders POV it is an upgrade regression * The impact is that local source (-s) can no more be used as before * The fix is backporting the fix that we made in Debian (but without all the noise of the arg parsing rewrite for SRU simplicity) [Test Case] * Run with local source port, like your local SSH for example: $ netcat -s 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 22 < /dev/null [Regression Potential] * the Minimized change (compared to the big change that versions going forward got) should be safe as it just allows a case that was formerly forbidden in arg-parsing. Never the less there could be a regression if one of those combinations causes an issue when ran where it formerly just was denied on arg parse. Think a script that since Bionic fails (due to this bug) but once enabled will "work" and DUE TO THAT might then trigger actions that are an issue. Never the less, since currently in Bionic this just fails, I'd assume the this is a rather theoretical risk - and being a regression to former releases we should fix it to make LTS->LTS upgraders suffer less. [Other Info] * n/a Hey, netcat shows a usage error if i try to use the "-s" option: Example in Bionic: $ netcat -s 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 22 < /dev/null usage: nc [-46CDdFhklNnrStUuvZz] [-I length] [-i interval] [-M ttl] [-m minttl] [-O length] [-P proxy_username] [-p source_port] [-q seconds] [-s source] [-T keyword] [-V rtable] [-W recvlimit] [-w timeout] [-X proxy_protocol] [-x proxy_address[:port]] [destination] [port] Example in Xenial: netcat -s 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 22 < /dev/null SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.2p2 Ubuntu-4ubuntu2.4 Manpage shows that the option is still availible and should work. Both systems use openbsd netcat. $ type netcat netcat is hashed (/bin/netcat) $ ls -lah /bin/netcat lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Apr 25 21:56 /bin/netcat -> /etc/alternatives/netcat $ ls -lah /etc/alternatives/netcat lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Apr 25 21:56 /etc/alternatives/netcat -> /bin/nc.openbsd ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: netcat-openbsd 1.187-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Apr 27 13:41:20 2018 Dependencies: gcc-8-base 8-20180414-1ubuntu2 libbsd0 0.8.7-1 libc6 2.27-3ubuntu1 libgcc1 1:8-20180414-1ubuntu2 ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: netcat-openbsd UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netcat-openbsd/+bug/1767283/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
