Hello, I think this is a good idea to drop the package since this tools does not have so much release (i just see this after ITA it :s) After some investigations, i see that: - nc.openbsd (netcat-openbsd package) have IPv6 and UDP support - nc6 have many supports like bluetooth support [1] via L2CAP protocol (yet used ?), buffer size, half-close, mtu and nru. I don't know if these features are useful for actual users of nc6 [2] - socat seems to have same features that nc.openbsd have (IPv6, UDP, etc..) 1: nc6(1) 2: http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=nc6 So the problem does not seems to be the IPv6 support but other features of nc6... Le Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:38:09 +0100, Luca Bruno <lucab@debian.org> a écrit : > Hi Guillame, > what are the features strictly relevant to nc6 over other advanced > conections tools (eg. socat), to justify the existence of a separate > package? > If it only add ipv6 support and "an enhanced support for UDP", I would > really say that socat already does this (and much more!). > > Given that upstream seems dead and there's a great mess with various > netcat flavors, wouldn't be better to coordinate with other developers > to try porting the v6 patch to the mainstream flavors and drop this > package? > > Ciao, Luca > -- Guillaume Delacour
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