From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ng0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add netcat-openbsd. [v2] Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 08:26:34 +0000 Message-ID: <87shulx7lx.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> References: <20160622000749.GA27984@shadowwalker> <20160622110046.GA12755@shadowwalker> <87r3bolxyn.fsf@gnu.org> <20160622224652.GB17885@shadowwalker> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54821) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bVDzB-0001gF-Tw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2016 04:26:41 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bVDzA-0005Bl-0l for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2016 04:26:36 -0400 Received: from mithlond.libertad.in-berlin.de ([2001:67c:1400:2490::1]:52968 helo=beleriand.n0.is) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bVDz9-0005Be-M2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2016 04:26:35 -0400 Received: by beleriand.n0.is (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 7341ea3a TLS version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2016 08:26:34 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <20160622224652.GB17885@shadowwalker> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org For future reference: At least 4 people including myself decided to drop netcat-openbsd: - It is unmaintained upstream (debian) - no commits since 2012 - but maintained in bsd-upstream, - the reply of the debian developer read like no one is responsible for all the lines of code in the patches, - upstreaming according to the debian developer did not work out for them. I tag this as 'done' for myself. I will re-open if no other netcat implementation works for me. -- ♥Ⓐ ng0 Current Keys: https://we.make.ritual.n0.is/ng0.txt For non-prism friendly talk find me on http://www.psyced.org