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Re: General support for IPv6 out of the box in Debian



In article <[🔎] Pine.GSO.4.00.10004111720460.26727-100000@sandra.lysator.liu.se> (at Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:25:55 +0200 (MET DST)), Pontus Lidman <pontus@lysator.liu.se> says:

> I guess the problem is that most maintainers don't have the possibility to
> keep the IPv6 parts updated or even test them properly. So wouldn't it be
> great if Debian could offer 6bone tunnels to all package maintainers?

The ideal way is that the upstream version (original version in other 
words) would support ipv6.

The other problem is that we don't use patch(es) on network; we don't 
have "ports" feature which fetches the original source(s) and patch(es) 
from different sites (ex. foo.orig.tar.gz exists in debian.org and 
foo-v6.diff.gz exists in v6.linux.or.jp).  If we had shuch feature, 
the package maintainer would be free from maintaining ipv6 codes.

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