Bug#175034: apt/IPv6 bug
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:11:03AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 12:07:49PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:07:26PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > Were you suggesting that this is a similar bug in apt, or that apt
> > > was affected by the glibc bug?
> >
> > The latter.
>
> So this bug should be reassigned?
If you think you have the slightest chance of convincing the glibc folks
to do anything about it, yes. We (the OpenSSH maintainers) tried over a
period of many months and were consistently rebuffed with bogus
statements such as "apache and bind don't have a problem with it" (of
course, when I looked into those I found that neither of those actually
use the buggy library function). Their position now seems to boil down
to "we don't care about IPv6 on 2.2".
> Or is it truly closed, and this bug should be closed as well?
No. Eventually, OpenSSH upstream heard about the problem and implemented
a hacky workaround, so ssh no longer suffers from the bug. However, the
problem has still not been fixed in glibc.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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