Debian Bug report logs - #145798
ITP: netcat-openbsd -- TCP/IP swiss army knife

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tuomas Heino <iheino@cc.hut.fi>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: netcat: openbsd's rewrite of netcat might help some ppl... or not

Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 19:29:24 +0300

Package: netcat
Version: 1.10-21
Severity: wishlist

Just noticed that OpenBSD's netcat rewrite has support for IPv6, UNIX
sockets and socks4/5 - and thus could be useful for some people - at
least bug #142898 is about socks4/5... too bad their current version
(http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/nc/netcat.c) seems
to be missing some of netcat's useful features (compare debian's netcat
w/ their cvs v1.20 & v1.47 and see).

Skimming their cvs log I noticed some bugs that could apply to debian's
netcat too; I'll submit more bugreports about them later...

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux bx3 2.4.19-pre2 #308 Thu Mar 7 18:27:08 EET 2002 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages netcat depends on:
ii  libc6          2.2.5-4        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone

Message #12 received at 145798@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>

To: 145798@bugs.debian.org

Subject: netcat: openbsd's rewrite of netcat might help some ppl... or not

Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:18:08 +0200

   Could you please elaborate on your tagging #145798 +wontfix? Debian
users are stuck with a netcat from 1998 that isn't maintained while the
OpenBSD netcat has support for IPv6, Unix sockets etc.

   If you don't have time to package a newer version, I can help; if you
just don't want to package it, let me know, I'll ITP netcast-openbsd
instead.

-- 
Sam.

Message #17 received at 145798@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Decklin Foster <decklin@red-bean.com>

To: Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>, 145798@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#145798: netcat: openbsd's rewrite of netcat might help some ppl... or not

Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:54:22 -0400

Sam Hocevar writes:

>    Could you please elaborate on your tagging #145798 +wontfix? Debian
> users are stuck with a netcat from 1998 that isn't maintained while the
> OpenBSD netcat has support for IPv6, Unix sockets etc.
> 
>    If you don't have time to package a newer version, I can help; if you
> just don't want to package it, let me know, I'll ITP netcast-openbsd
> instead.

I didn't want to replace what we have, but if this bug is really an RFP,
I'll check it out, see if there's anything to be done to make using the
alternatives system work, and put a package together. Ping me again if this
isn't ready by the end of the week.

-- 
things change.
decklin@red-bean.com

Message #22 received at 145798@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Soren Hansen <soren@ubuntu.com>

To: 145798@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#145798: netcat: openbsd's rewrite of netcat might help some ppl... or not

Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:19:44 +0100

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> I didn't want to replace what we have, but if this bug is really an
> RFP, I'll check it out, see if there's anything to be done to make
> using the alternatives system work, and put a package together. Ping
> me again if this isn't ready by the end of the week.

Consider yourself pinged. :)

I took the liberty of grabbing Fedora's packages as they're based on
OpenBSD's implementation and added a patch to maintain full command line
argument compatibility.

You can find it at:

  http://people.ubuntu.com/~soren/upload/netcat/netcat_1.84-1_source.changes

-- 
Soren Hansen
Ubuntu Server Team
http://www.ubuntu.com/

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Message #27 received at 145798@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Decklin Foster <decklin@red-bean.com>

To: control@bugs.debian.org, Soren Hansen <soren@ubuntu.com>, 145798@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#145798: netcat: openbsd's rewrite of netcat might help some ppl... or not

Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:19:40 -0500

retitle 145798 ITP: netcat-openbsd -- TCP/IP swiss army knife
reassign 145798 wnpp
thanks

Due to feature requests (UNIX domain sockets, SOCKS) that are difficult
to implement in the current, aging netcat code base, I have decided to
once again look into packaging OpenBSD's version. At the present date it
seems very mature and has been used by Fedora for several years.

I will continue attempting to keep "classic" netcat functional for the
hardcore traditionalists (yes, there are a few open patches...), and will
not change any defaults until at least lenny+1. A transition plan will be
worked out soon in concert with Ubuntu (who are interested in moving on
this more quickly).

Details for the netcat-openbsd package will be essentially the same
except for a note about its origin, so I have not added the standard ITP
boilerplate while retitling this bug. I hope no one minds.

Soren Hansen writes:

> > I didn't want to replace what we have, but if this bug is really an
> > RFP, I'll check it out, see if there's anything to be done to make
> > using the alternatives system work, and put a package together. Ping
> > me again if this isn't ready by the end of the week.
> 
> Consider yourself pinged. :)
> 
> I took the liberty of grabbing Fedora's packages as they're based on
> OpenBSD's implementation and added a patch to maintain full command line
> argument compatibility.
> 
> You can find it at:
> 
>   http://people.ubuntu.com/~soren/upload/netcat/netcat_1.84-1_source.changes
> 
> -- 
> Soren Hansen
> Ubuntu Server Team
> http://www.ubuntu.com/

-- 
things change.
decklin@red-bean.com

Message #40 received at 145798-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Decklin Foster <decklin@red-bean.com>

To: 145798-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#145798: fixed in netcat-openbsd 1.89-1

Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:25:29 +0000

Source: netcat-openbsd
Source-Version: 1.89-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
netcat-openbsd, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

netcat-openbsd_1.89-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/n/netcat-openbsd/netcat-openbsd_1.89-1.diff.gz
netcat-openbsd_1.89-1.dsc
  to pool/main/n/netcat-openbsd/netcat-openbsd_1.89-1.dsc
netcat-openbsd_1.89-1_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/n/netcat-openbsd/netcat-openbsd_1.89-1_amd64.deb
netcat-openbsd_1.89.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/n/netcat-openbsd/netcat-openbsd_1.89.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 145798@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Decklin Foster <decklin@red-bean.com> (supplier of updated netcat-openbsd package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.7
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:41:37 -0500
Source: netcat-openbsd
Binary: netcat-openbsd
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 1.89-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Decklin Foster <decklin@red-bean.com>
Changed-By: Decklin Foster <decklin@red-bean.com>
Description: 
 netcat-openbsd - TCP/IP swiss army knife
Closes: 142898 145798 348564 461317
Changes: 
 netcat-openbsd (1.89-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Initial release. (Closes: #145798)
   * Includes support for:
     - IPv6 (Closes: #461317)
     - Unix domain sockets (Closes: #348564)
     - SOCKS (Closes: #142898)
   * Conflict with netcat versions older than netcat-base, so that we can use
     alternatives.
   * Port some features over from netcat-base:
     - Exit successfully when printing help text (-h), and include the Debian
       revision.
     - Add the -q (quit on standard input EOF) flag.
     - Add support for specifying ports by name (/etc/services). Unlike the
       old hack for this, nc will first try to find a named service, then fall
       back to numeric parsing, so no escaping is needed.
Files: 
 11f3a052c5481eec0ada603c95947e19 613 net optional netcat-openbsd_1.89-1.dsc
 7238ce15aae43069e96ba7faf03f153e 13033 net optional netcat-openbsd_1.89.orig.tar.gz
 a49f676d927551d2a9846c0d8a7d3341 29136 net optional netcat-openbsd_1.89-1.diff.gz
 a1b15c0f0b3fcae5c0a22c1e8c3b17d8 36404 net optional netcat-openbsd_1.89-1_amd64.deb

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