* bug#38666: Maybe netcat should support ipv6 ("-6" option)
@ 2019-12-19 1:46 Danny Milosavljevic
2019-12-22 18:04 ` Leo Famulari
2022-07-14 2:11 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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From: Danny Milosavljevic @ 2019-12-19 1:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 38666
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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.
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* bug#38666: Maybe netcat should support ipv6 ("-6" option)
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
2022-07-14 2:11 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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From: Leo Famulari @ 2019-12-22 18:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Danny Milosavljevic; +Cc: 38666
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On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 02:46:07AM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> 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.
There is a more featured and maintained netcat implementation (ncat)
provided by the nmap package. It does support IPv6.
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* bug#38666: Maybe netcat should support ipv6 ("-6" option)
2019-12-22 18:04 ` Leo Famulari
@ 2019-12-22 20:09 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-12-26 15:28 ` Marius Bakke
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From: Danny Milosavljevic @ 2019-12-22 20:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Leo Famulari; +Cc: 38666
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Hmm, would it make sense to deprecate the "netcat" package then--with a hint on
how to get the functionality (by installing nmap)?
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* bug#38666: Maybe netcat should support ipv6 ("-6" option)
2019-12-22 20:09 ` Danny Milosavljevic
@ 2019-12-26 15:28 ` Marius Bakke
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From: Marius Bakke @ 2019-12-26 15:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Danny Milosavljevic, Leo Famulari; +Cc: 38666
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Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> writes:
> Hmm, would it make sense to deprecate the "netcat" package then--with a hint on
> how to get the functionality (by installing nmap)?
There is no shortage of netcats in Guix.
In addition to 'ncat', there is 'netcat-openbsd', and LibreSSL also
includes a 'nc' executable; all of which support IPv6 to my knowledge.
I don't have an opinion on favoring one over the other. But it would be
good to deprecate the unmaintained GNU netcat with something that works.
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* bug#38666: Maybe netcat should support ipv6 ("-6" option)
2019-12-19 1:46 bug#38666: Maybe netcat should support ipv6 ("-6" option) Danny Milosavljevic
2019-12-22 18:04 ` Leo Famulari
@ 2022-07-14 2:11 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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From: Maxim Cournoyer @ 2022-07-14 2:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Danny Milosavljevic; +Cc: 38666
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/
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