From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: 38666@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38666: Maybe netcat should support ipv6 ("-6" option)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 22:11:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r12ozbmg.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191219024513.13eab30a@scratchpost.org> (Danny Milosavljevic's message of "Thu, 19 Dec 2019 02:46:07 +0100")
Hi,
Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> writes:
> Hi,
>
> maybe netcat should support ipv6 ("-6" option).
>
> The latest official release on Sourceforge doesn't have it but Debian includes a patch to add it.
Debian doesn't seem to be using GNU netcat anymore; their control file
[0] mentions the home page to be [1], and the version is at 1.10, not
that this is very useful.
I wouldn't remove the package since it seems to be still functioning
despite seemingly abandoned.
[0] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/netcat/-/blob/master/debian/control
[1] http://www.stearns.org/nc/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-14 2:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-19 1:46 bug#38666: Maybe netcat should support ipv6 ("-6" option) Danny Milosavljevic
2019-12-22 18:04 ` Leo Famulari
2019-12-22 20:09 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-12-26 15:28 ` Marius Bakke
2022-07-14 2:11 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
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