Re: Bug#587956: netbase: Does not cleanup bindv6only upon upgrades

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Josselin Mouette writes ("Re: Bug#587956: netbase: Does not cleanup bindv6only upon upgrades"):
> Quick summary for the committee: netbase removed the infamous
> bindv6only=1 setting in the latest version, but the file remains upon
> upgrades from affected versions.

I see.

What would be needed to fix it up for old systems ?  How easy is it to
detect and distinguish the situation where the sysadmin deliberately
changed it (which AIUI is something they may reasonably do if they
want the additional assurance and are willing to change the relevant
daemons' configuration to listen separately on v4 and v6) ?

Marco: regardless of whether you consider this "a bug", would you
accept in principle a contribution (a patch) to change systems which
had the previous default ?

Ian.