On Oct 21, Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> wrote: > It depends on what you mean by "up to date". If we're only including > glibc headers, then we can only use functionality that glibc supports. Which I would consider a big problem. > If we bypass glibc and directly use kernel functionality, then we get > all the latest and greatest kernel networking features. However, the > programs are then entirely linux specific, and may even fail to work > correctly on different (typically older) version of Linux. Then the program would be broken and in need to be fixed, but I have no reason to believe that it actually suffers from this kind of bugs. > So yes, in some sense, a portable ping may be out of date. This is > exactly why the upstream author didn't accept my patches to remove the > dependency on kernel headers. He cares more about the package being up > to date. Our requirements may be slightly different, though. Please let me know if you plan to remove features from iputils, so I will start maintaining a new, fully working package. -- ciao, Marco
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