Hi Sven,
Sven Hartge wrote:
> On 31.08.2017 12:34, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > I though will have to think about how to actually implement this.
> > Maybe as additional binary package "fping6" which only needs to be
> > installed if Smokeping has older slaves.
>
> Why not just provide the symlink I mentioned in the fping package?
I would like to avoid that people continue to use fping6 just because
it's there.
> It will allow older scripts to continue working and the only
> "downside" I can see from this is that "fping6" will suddenly also
> work for IPv4 hosts.
That's no downside for me. :-)
>From my point of view the main downside is that people won't notice
that it's gone (despite NEWS.Debian, changelog.Debian.gz, etc.) and
will continue to use it.
But then again, you're right: As soon as even oldoldstable has an
fping which works for both, IPv4 and IPv6, it doesn't hurt that the
/usr/bin/fping6 symlink is still there. They will notice at latest
when we make a Debian release where the symlink is dropped and by then
they should be able to even switch their oldstable and oldoldstable
systems to use just /usr/bin/fping and it's fine.
So I'll probably just re-add that symlink plus an according man page
and NEWS.Debian entry and that's it.
Regards, Axel
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