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Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add netcat-openbsd. [v2]
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ng0 |
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Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add netcat-openbsd. [v2] |
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Fri, 08 Jul 2016 16:24:21 +0000 |
Ludovic Courtès writes:
> ng0 <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> On 2016-06-22(11:23:28PM+0200), Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> ng0 <address@hidden> skribis:
>>>
>>> > * gnu/packages/admin.scm (netcat-openbsd): New variable.
>>> > * patches/netcat-openbsd-0001-port-to-linux-with-libbsd.patch,
>>> > patches/netcat-openbsd-0002-connect-timeout.patch,
>>> > patches/netcat-openbsd-0003-get-sev-by-name.patch,
>>> > patches/netcat-openbsd-0004-poll-hup.patch,
>>> > patches/netcat-openbsd-0005-send-crlf.patch,
>>> > patches/netcat-openbsd-0006-quit-timer.patch,
>>> > patches/netcat-openbsd-0007-udp-scan-timeout.patch,
>>> > patches/netcat-openbsd-0008-verbose-numeric-port.patch,
>>> > patches/netcat-openbsd-0009-dccp-support.patch,
>>> > patches/netcat-openbsd-0010-serialized-handling-multiple-clients.patch,
>>> > patches/netcat-openbsd-0011-misc-failures-and-features.patch: New files.
>>>
>>> Sorry for joining late, but I think 11 non-trivial patches is not OK (we
>>> have the policy of not keeping non-trivial patches, unless they fix an
>>> immediate bug or a Guix-specific issue.)
>>>
>>> Is there an upstream for this package?
>>
>> The upstream is the debian port to linux of the nc binary of OpenBSD
>> (see in code comment on upstream), mentioned in the package.
>
> I see. Does Debian have a Git/SVN repo for this code? It would be best
> to fetch from that repo than to carry all these patches.
>
> If that is not possible, another option is to download all these patches
> using origins, which would at least make it clear where they come from:
>
> (package
> (name "netcat-openbsd")
> ;; …
> (source (origin
> ;; …
> (patches (list (origin
> ;; …
> (uri "http://debian.org/…"))
> …)))))
>
> WDYT?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-07/msg00269.html
Could you comment on my reply on this?
thanks
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