Bug#468801: libc6: RFC3484 scoping rules should only affect IPv6, not IPv4

[Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>]

* Marco d'Itri

> Agreed. Can the libc maintainers please comment on this issue?
> 
> The next Debian release will be used in a period in which more and more
> sites will deploy IPv6 and we must be sure to not make them less
> reliable for the people adopting transition mechanisms.

Just adding some information here - I've asked a number of other
distributors, and currently Debian is the only one that has not yet
applied the patch to its developement branch (or stated an intention to
do so).  See:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577626
https://bugs.launchpad.net/glibc/+bug/555210
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315977
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597616
https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=58834

Best regards,
-- 
Tore Anderson