On Sun, 2021-04-04 at 22:58 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Friday 2021-04-02 22:42, Carlos E. R. wrote:
cer(a)Telcontar:~> rpm -qi ipcalc Name : ipcalc Version : 0.41 URL : http://jodies.de/ipcalc
However, our version is obsolete, from 2005: Mageia 8 has version 1.0.0. The current repo is (apparently) https://gitlab.com/ipcalc/ipcalc, updated past year.
Absolutely not.
The versions are all different if you look at Jodies's download directory vs. that git repository (0.zz vs x.y.z), and there is no trace of Jodies's code or authorship in that gitlab repo - instead, some Redhat guys have their name in there.
It is not a successor by history or spirit, and if you or anyone else plans on packaging this, a new package name for the openSUSE SRPM needs to be chosen.
Jodies' seems to be unmaintained: last release was 15 years ago. The new ipcalc tool seems to be its successor whilst maintaining compatibility as far as possible. See discussion in https://gitlab.com/ipcalc/ipcalc/-/issues/18. The maintained fork of ipcalc seems to already have a new name: netcalc https://github.com/troglobit/netcalc. Indeed it also installs a symlink called ipcalc pointing to `/usr/bin/netcalc`. We could supersede the current version of ipcalc with the RH version of ipcalc (1.0.0) knowing that there is netcalc already provides the old ipcalc's functionality. Cheers, -- Atri Bhattacharya Sun 4 Apr 23:11:28 CEST 2021 Sent from openSUSE Tumbleweed on my laptop.