Hi everyone,
I am sending this email following an IRC discussion with Robbie. This
discussion might belong to ubuntu-devel, but let's start here. Not
being a developer myself, my post to ubuntu-devel are moderated, which
would complicate kickstarting this discussion.
It's about bug #544935:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netcat-openbsd/+bug/544935
Long story short, a Ubuntu-specific patch change the default behavior of
netcat, and that break some people's use-case. For example, a script
that would rely on the default nc behavior would break on Ubuntu >=
hardy. This could happen if someone was upgrading from, say, dapper, or
was trying to port his script from a different distribution.
Robbie is of the opinion that the behavior should be reverted back to
the upstream default in Natty, but left as is in current release. Me, I
do not know. On one hand, this would against the SRU policy, with sound
rationale. On the other, this "bug" can be extremely frustrating to
those that hit it. I think, at the very least, this would need to be
documented *somehow*.
Thoughts?
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Etienne Goyer
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