Bionic currently has fping 4.0-6 and smokeping 2.6.11-4. So
unfortunately the buggy smokeping version combined with the more recent
fping version break smokeping's detection:
"FPing: WARNING: your fping binary doesn't support source address
setting (-S), I will ignore any sourceaddress
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: smokeping (Ubuntu Bionic)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Hello Gabriel, thanks for your work on this bug!
There are two points that need to be looked at prior to this change
being sponsored. Since you asked about the version number, I will point
you at the standard for versions in stable releases:
** Also affects: smokeping (Ubuntu Bionic)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: smokeping (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Low
** Changed in: smokeping (Ubuntu Bionic)
Importance: Undecided => Low
** Changed in: smokeping (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Released
ook, 2nd trial. I've reapplied the same changes on the right version
this time. so smokeping 2.6.11-4
I've allowed dch to make it version -4.1 since it's a divergence from -4
but -5 has already been released and is different. however, I don't know
if this respects ubuntu's version numbering
The attachment "Import two compatibility patches for fping 4.0" seems to
be a debdiff. The ubuntu-sponsors team has been subscribed to the bug
report so that they can review and hopefully sponsor the debdiff. If
the attachment isn't a patch, please remove the "patch" flag from the
attachment,
oops. seems like I based my changes on the wrong package version. bionic
has 2.6.11-4, not -2
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Title:
Smokeping 2.6.11-4 probe FPing is not
Here's (attached) my first attempt at the debdiff thing. I'm hoping that
I did this correctly but I'm not used to this process so please tell me
if I need to correct some aspect of it.
** Patch added: "Import two compatibility patches for fping 4.0"
Oh.. actually to completely fix smokeping's compatibility with smokeping
we need also a second patch (which is actually addressing the original
bug report *harrumpf*).
Tobias, the upstream author fixed compatibility for the -O and -S
options in the following patch, so it also needs to be
Hi there!
I've recently started co-maintaining the smokeping package in debian
with Antoine Beaupré and I've worked on updating the package to 2.7.3.
it was recently brought to my attention (on the smokeping users mailing
list) that this bug existed in the ubuntu version of smokeping. This bug
** Description changed:
Smokeping 2.6.11-4 probe FPing is not compatible with fping 4.0 when
setting sourceaddress option.
It happens because the '-S' option is expecting the 3.13 help output but
it has changed in 4.0.
In smokeping version 2.7.1 the '-S' option checking has
** Description changed:
Smokeping 2.6.11-4 probe FPing is not compatible with fping 4.0 when
setting sourceaddress option.
It happens because the '-S' option is expecting the 3.13 help output but
it has changed in 4.0.
In smokeping version 2.7.1 the '-S' option checking has
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