Hello Nick,

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 10:04:04PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Linux requires to have sin6_scope_id hold the interface id when binding to
> link-local addresses. This is already in use in other parts of upnp, so
> portability shouldn't be in the way here. Without this bind(2) fails with
> errno=EINVAL (although ipv6(7) from manpages 4.08 specifies ENODEV in this
> case).
> 
> Fixes: https://bugs.debian.org/813249
> ---
> Hello,
> 
> would be great to get this patch into libupnp (both Debian and upstream)
> because without this vlc (which makes use of libupnp) cannot "see" any UPNP
> shares.

would you mind me doing an NMU (1:1.6.19+git20160116-1.2) to fix this? I
also think this affects all ipv6 enabled machines so I wonder if
severity important would be justified. Also it seems worthwile to add
commit 91ef91e8531b86507f9a752316991221792db380 from upstream.

Best regards
Uwe

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