Hi Richard,
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 01:02:10PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
> Excellent. Would someone like to be a "sponsor" for that, in the sense
> that I described last March?
>
> : * Don't try to keep track of everything. Find a "sponsor" for each
> : release goal, who keeps track of progress, makes sure it happens, and
> : gives advance warning of any problems. That way the release manager
> : only has to stay in touch with the sponsor.
Could you please add "IPv6 Support" as a Release Goal? I'm willing to
act as a sponsor for this (especially since it looks like everyone else
is more than happy to do the actual work :).
We're aiming, more or less, to get the base system IPv6 capable for potato,
and, I guess, most of the networky programs of priority Standard or higher
for woody [0].
We're currently at the point where:
In potato:
* bind supports AAAA records (and has for ages)
* netbase supports IPv6 interfaces, has a working ping6, and traceroute6
In progress: [1]
* telnet/telnetd (support for both IPv6 and IPv4 in one binary)
* inetd, tcp-wrappers
* apache
* zmailer
* radvd
Under consideration: (working packages aren't available yet)
* Exim
Mark Baker <mbaker@iee.org> (the exim.deb maintainer)
* GNU Zebra
Matthew Schlegel <nitehawk@1ststep.net> (tentative intent to package)
Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au) (from the WNPP)
* apt
Remco van de Meent <remco@debian.org> (currently just trying things out)
Still to do for potato:
* ftp, ftpd
* finger, fingerd
* identd
* tcpdump
* lynx
* ssh
We're also working on getting a 6-bone subnet (or something similar) to help
testing all this.
Cheers,
aj
[0] ...or whatever.
[1] Packages have been made, and are available for testing from either of:
deb http://www.debian.org/~ajt/ipv6 ipv6 unstable
deb ftp://ftp.ipv6.nl/pub debian/
The sites are more or less synced; they're also i386 only at the
moment. All packages in the staging area *need* testing, btw: if you
try one and it does/doesn't work, please send a mail to the -ipv6
list so we know when things are ready to be mashed into potato.
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Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/>
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