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* 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
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
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
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
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
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
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
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
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
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
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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