Re: General support for IPv6 out of the box in Debian
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Pontus Lidman wrote:
> I noticed that there are now quite a lot of packages that have special
> IPv6 versions in Debian, but quite few have IPv6 in the mainstream
> packages. I think it would be better if the IPv6 support could be included
> in the debian diff to the upstream package, so we could get more
> IPv6-enabled programs in the main distribution.
I think most of the problem has to do with the original
author/creator/maintainer of the source: "IPv6? Why?? Just use IPv4!"
Where FreeBSD has succeeded is that it has a dedicated legion to...
> I guess the problem is that most maintainers don't have the possibility to
> keep the IPv6 parts updated or even test them properly. So wouldn't it be
> great if Debian could offer 6bone tunnels to all package maintainers?
...keep those IPv6 diffs up-to-date, plus those guys are savvy enough to
know quite a bit about the protocol. If you're suggesting a script
package for Debian as a user option for connecting to the Freenet6 (the
6bone tunnel server) then that would be cool. Has anyone created such a
"deb"?
> Since this hasn't been done already, I guess there must be problems? What
> problems are there?
I could list them (opinion only), but I'll see what the replies are
first...
> Pontus
wfms
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