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Re: netcat-openbsd implementations


From: Aron Xu
Subject: Re: netcat-openbsd implementations
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 12:41:44 +0800

Hi there,

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> ng0 <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Aron Xu writes:
>
> [...]
>
>>> I don't treat this netcat-openbsd a full fork even if it's targeting
>>> an older revision at the moment. Also, maintaining patches are very
>>> easy using the git-buildpackage[1] tools for Debian packages.
>>>
>>> [1]https://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Third option I thought of, could Debian provide a tarball of
>>>> the orig-source with the patches applied, so there's no need
>>>> to conflict with systems currently pulling one or both of the
>>>> currently existing tarball.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think it is hardly possible to provide another tarball because
>>> there's no way of doing that with current Debian infrastructure. But
>
> [...]
>
>> So what do others make of this?
>> Ludovic, any follow-up thoughts or actions regarding our thread
>> on this?
>
> I think it would be more convenient to have a source repo for
> netcat-openbsd rather than the current setup with a set of
> debian/*.patch files.
>
> Perhaps alioth.debian.org could host a netcat-openbsd project containing
> the GNU/Linux port (with all the patches applied), from which both the
> Debian package and the Guix package would be built?
>
> If that’s not an option then yes, you can do as you proposed, ng0.
>
> Ludo’.

We've updated netcat-openbsd package to 1.130 with all patches
refreshed, if you have plan to follow the update then it's the time,
:)

Cheers,
Aron



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