bug#27811: net-tools patch has no effect?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Leo,

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 12:12:25AM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
>> This problem with the wrong number of arguments being passed to
>> parse_media() is introduced in the Debian patch, so we should check if
>> there is a better version of the patch or if fixes are being applied
>> upstream.
>
> Actually, the first issue is that the patch doesn't apply to the source
> fully. I tried a later patch from Debian, but it also doesn't apply. I
> haven't been able to try fetching a later revision of the net-tools Git
> repo, because I first have to make Git not depend on net-tools.
>
> This patch will try to apply the patch and handle the exit codes of
> gunzip and patch correctly:

Good catch, this LGTM.  I wonder how this went unnoticed for so long!

As for the actual update, the intent is to add a second ‘net-tools’
variant, right?

Thanks for looking into this!

Ludo’.