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FS#53439 - [libvirt] Please make choice between gnu-netcat and openbsd-netcat available

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Svenne Krap (svenne_k) - Friday, 24 March 2017, 12:11 GMT
Last edited by Christian Rebischke (Shibumi) - Wednesday, 07 March 2018, 19:53 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Christian Rebischke (Shibumi)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
It would be nice if either gnu-netcat or openbsd-netcat could satisfy the netcat dependency of this package.

I have tried hacking it on my machine from ABS, and it seems to run okay with gnu-netcat.

The security suite "blackarch" for example needs gnu-netcat and hence cannot be installed at the same time as openbsd-netcat (and hence virt-manager).

This task depends upon

Closed by  Christian Rebischke (Shibumi)
Wednesday, 07 March 2018, 19:53 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Please checkout 4.1.0-1 in testing!
Comment by Christian Rebischke (Shibumi) - Saturday, 27 January 2018, 03:01 GMT
If you have tried it can you apply a patch? :)
Comment by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Sunday, 28 January 2018, 03:17 GMT
If virt-manager does not care which variant of netcat is installed, then you can simply optdepends on "netcat" which will be satisfied by either package.
Comment by Christian Rebischke (Shibumi) - Sunday, 28 January 2018, 19:58 GMT
Hello,
I have checked the package. virt-manager doesn't depend on netcat in the package.This bug should has 'libvirt' as target. And I am not sure yet if this would work. According to some debian people there are problems with gnu-netcat: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=516482

But I would be willing to push a version in testing.

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