Re: Bindv6only once again

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) writes:

> I believe that now we fixed ~everything which can be fixed, so this
> leaves us with the proprietary Java implementation which apparently Sun
> is unwilling to fix.

I think there are probably other proprietary applications that people just
haven't tried using with testing yet.  I suspect most uses of proprietary
applications are in environments where it's rare to use something other
than stable.

> Unless the maintainer believes that we can get a fixed version before
> the release then I propose to stop setting bindv6only=1 by default.
> While it was a useful experiment, since it allowed to expose and fix a
> fair number of bugs, it should not compromise the general usability of
> Debian systems.

I agree with this decision.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>