Excerpts from Benedikt Spranger's message of Wed Apr 07 11:35:53 -0400 2010: > The -q flag introduced by Debian is completely superfluous and harmful. > It causes a lot of trouble in a cross platform environment. > Furthermore the implementation changes netcat to a non standard > behaviour.
I've corrected this in netcat-openbsd (1.89-4). After reviewing the source in both packages and testing versions with the -q patch removed entirely, I've determined that the default behaviors in *hobbit*'s netcat and OpenBSD netcat are not the same (OpenBSD normally quits on EOF, *hobbit*'s does not unless you add and use a -q flag). At this point, I believe that anyone who has chosen to keep Debian's netcat-traditional installed instead of upgrading probably depends on its warts and quirks, so I'd prefer to only fix netcat-openbsd to make it work as people expect and not the (arguably broken) "traditional" way. Let me know if using netcat-openbsd is an acceptable solution for you. -- things change. deck...@red-bean.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
