FS#79456 - [gnu-netcat] drop package: no release since 2004; repo has newer alternative

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Marcell Meszaros (MarsSeed) - Wednesday, 23 August 2023, 17:43 GMT
Last edited by Buggy McBugFace (bugbot) - Saturday, 25 November 2023, 20:27 GMT
Task Type Support Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Levente Polyak (anthraxx)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description: Consider removing gnu-netcat from repo.

Rationale: This has not seen a new release since 2004. [a]
The project is also unsupported and the maintainers are unresponsive since
at least 2012. [b]
Upstream's Subversion repo only continued to receive (a few) patches until 2013. [c]

Arch repo carries the actively maintained alternative:
* extra/openbsd-netcat (last upstream release: Jun 10, 2023)

Both that and this package defines the virtual provides 'netcat'.

Nothing depends specifically on gnu-netcat.

No disruption expected by deleting it from repo.

Refs:
[a]: https://sourceforge.net/projects/netcat/files/netcat/
[b]: https://sourceforge.net/p/netcat/support-requests/6/
[c]: https://sourceforge.net/p/netcat/code/HEAD/tree/
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Closed by  Buggy McBugFace (bugbot)
Saturday, 25 November 2023, 20:27 GMT
Reason for closing:  Moved
Additional comments about closing:  https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/p ackaging/packages/gnu-netcat/issues/1

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