Bug#948855: buster-pu: package iputils/3:20180629-2
Control: tags -1 + confirmed
On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 14:13 -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> Control: tags -1 -moreinfo
>
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 10:11:23PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > > > > I'd like to fix
> > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=947921 in
> > > > > buster. Ping has some issues coping with explicitly
> > > > > specified
> > > > > source interfaces when pinging DNS names and DNS returns
> > > > > multiple
> > > > > addresses via getaddrinfo(). Please see the commit messages
> > > > > and
> > > > > the bug report for in-depth explanation of what's going on.
> > > >
> > > > The metadata for that bug report suggests that it affects the
> > > > iputils package in unstable, and is not currently fixed there.
> > > > Is
> > > > that correct?
> > >
> > > That's correct. Upstream has not yet made a release containing
> > > the
> > > fix, nor have I backported it to the version currently in testing
> > > (there are enough changes to make that nontrivial). I am making
> > > my
> > > request based on the patch author's report that it does, indeed,
> > > fix
> > > the problem in buster, and the fact that the fix has been
> > > accepted
> > > upstream.
> > >
> > > If you'd prefer, we can wait until the next buster point release,
> > > by
> > > which time we'll presumably have more testing of these patches.
> >
> > In general our workflow is for patches to be applied to unstable
> > first
> > where appropriate, so that sounds like the best approach; thanks
> > for
> > confirming.
>
> iputils with the applied fixes is now in sid and bullseye. I'd like
> to get this into the next buster update.
>
Thanks; please go ahead.
Regards,
Adam
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