Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Tuesday 2015-06-09 11:31, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
The net-tools package in Factory is completely outdated. We have version 1.60 from 2001(!)
Well, that is the date of the most recent tarball. Tarballs are a reasonable base, if you ask me :)
there is an at least slightly more current git repo (last update 2013) at sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/net-tools/ That one is also used by Fedora, Gentoo, Arch etc.
Anyone up to taking the challenge of rebasing the patches in the net-tools package to that git version?
Anyone considering it: Be aware that there return for that is already diminishingly low, and that his/her time is probably better invested in removing Requires: net-tools from the few remaining packages.
openSUSE's boot does not depend on net-tools, neither does Fedora's. Fedora's dhcp-server does not depend on it either (while openSUSE's still does). The ship has sunk long ago… the remains only float because of buoyancy.
You are right, it's mostly useful for the hostname tool. Still I guess we want and have to keep that one. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Dilip Upmanyu, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org