Re: net-tools maintenance status
Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> There are a few bugs open, marked as "help needed" it would be nice if
> anybody would help with those, instead of ranting.
Of course that would be nice, but it's not an answer to my question.
Also, more than two years ago I did write code to solve the IPv4/IPv6
truncation issue. However, you (kinda) rejected it with a vague
comment and refused to tell me in what way it should be improved. I'd
rather not work on other bugs if there's a chance the work gets
ignored again.
Finally, last month, the IPv4 part of the bug got fixed.
> I had multiple persons offering to take over the project and nobody
> contributed any work before.
And?
> I actually have two new people supporting my in the project (upstream) and i
> am quite responsive to them. Because they help.
That's nice to hear.
> Besides that, my plan is to have an 1.65 upstream release which is basically
> the Debian version (since that version is quite ok, must of the open bugs
Isn't that the same plan as two years ago?
> are kernel/technology related. As you can read in the archives the last few
> attempts to help me with those ended with the inresponsiveness of net
> developers (those consider net-tools obsolted by iproute).
Please CC me, I'm not in the list.
Greetings,
Olaf
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