The description of the patch explains why the current behavior is buggy and not just different in a way users would be relying on the difference of behavior. It's not that it works differently, it is that it reports wrong information.
The patch didn't apply directly so I've adapted it and verified that a build of the package with it matched the new expected behavior before uploading. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to iputils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1964506 Title: Ping: checks payloads incorrectly, ignores all mismatch replies Status in iputils package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in iputils source package in Focal: Incomplete Bug description: = Impact = the ping statistics are incorrect when dealing with truncated packets = Test case = $ ping -c 1 -s 1200 8.8.8.8 should list truncated replies and received packets = Regression potential = the changes are limited to the ping source any regression would impact that utility, check that responses are correctly handled and statistics reflecting what is expected -------------------------------------------------- Problematic commit reverted upstream causing incorrect behavior in Ubuntu Focal. Discussion: https://github.com/iputils/iputils/issues/320 Fix: https://github.com/iputils/iputils/pull/321 Release: https://github.com/iputils/iputils/releases/tag/20210722 Could this patch be added for a Focal update please? 1) Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS 2) 3:20190709-3 3) focal$ ping -c 1 -s 1200 8.8.8.8 PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 1200(1228) bytes of data. --- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms 4) xenial$ ping -c 1 -s 1200 8.8.8.8 PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 1200(1228) bytes of data. 76 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=61 (truncated) --- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.284/0.284/0.284/0.000 ms To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iputils/+bug/1964506/+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
