Package: bind9-host Version: 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Bind9-host package description says host is a deprecated utility whereas it seems it's not. See [1] . I also had a private mail exchange with Ondrej (a DD) who also shared that the utility is not deprecated.
$ aptitude show bind9-host=1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+b1 Package: bind9-host Version: 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+b1 State: installed Automatically installed: no Priority: standard Section: net Maintainer: Debian DNS Team <team+...@tracker.debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Uncompressed Size: 369 k Compressed Size: 271 k Filename: pool/main/b/bind9/bind9-host_9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+b1_amd64.deb Checksum-FileSize: 271156 MD5Sum: 8cd326a23a51acdb773df5b7dce76060 SHA256: 977287c7212e9d3e671b85fdd04734b4908fe86d4b3581e47fb86d8b27cfdb3b Archive: testing Depends: libbind9-161 (= 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+b1), libdns1104 (= 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+b1), libisc1100 (=1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+b1), libisccfg163 (= 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+b1), liblwres161 (= 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+b1), libc6 (>= 2.14), libcap2 (>= 1:2.10), libcom-err2 (>= 1.43.9), libfstrm0 (>= 0.2.0), libgeoip1, libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2), libidn2-0 (>= 2.0.0), libjson-c4 (>= 0.13.1), libk5crypto3 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2), libkrb5-3 (>=1.6.dfsg.2), liblmdb0 (>= 0.9.6), libprotobuf-c1 (>= 1.0.0), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), libxml2 (>= 2.6.27) Provides: host Description: DNS lookup utility (deprecated) This package provides /usr/bin/host, a simple utility (bundled with the BIND 9.X sources) which can be used for converting domain names to IP addresses and the reverse. This utility is deprecated, use dig or delv from the dnsutils package. Homepage: https://www.isc.org/downloads/bind/ I also see it is not deprecated because there seem to be new releases of it and upstream seems to be giving new releases as well. - $ apt-cache policy bind9-host bind9-host: Installed: 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+b1 Candidate: 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+b1 Version table: 1:9.15.7-1 100 100 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian experimental/main amd64 Packages 1:9.11.14+dfsg-1 100 100 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages *** 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+b1 900 900 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status So please fix the package description so this confusion is no more. 1. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/560284/why-host-from-bind9-host-is-was-deprecated-and-when/560305#560305 -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (100, 'unstable-debug'), (100, 'experimental'), (100, 'unstable'), (50, 'experimental-debug') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.3.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IN:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages bind9-host depends on: ii libbind9-161 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+b1 ii libc6 2.29-3 ii libcap2 1:2.27-1 ii libcom-err2 1.45.4-1 ii libdns1104 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+b1 ii libfstrm0 0.6.0-1+b1 ii libgeoip1 1.6.12-5 ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.17-6 ii libidn2-0 2.2.0-2 ii libisc1100 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+b1 ii libisccfg163 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+b1 ii libjson-c4 0.13.1+dfsg-6 ii libk5crypto3 1.17-6 ii libkrb5-3 1.17-6 ii liblmdb0 0.9.22-1 ii liblwres161 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+b1 ii libprotobuf-c1 1.3.2-1+b1 ii libssl1.1 1.1.1d-2 ii libxml2 2.9.4+dfsg1-8 bind9-host recommends no packages. bind9-host suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com E493 D466 6D67 59F5 1FD0 930F 870E 9A5B 5869 609C
