On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:54:58PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > So yes, in some sense, a portable ping may be out of date.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. It's worth noting that at this point I believe "portable" and "up-to-date" are not mutually exclusive. They may be in the future. That makes it somewhat hard to justify maintaining a separate package, IMO. But that's just me. noah
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