Package: fping Version: 4.0-1 Severity: important Tags: ipv6 Hi!
The change to remove the fping6 binary breaks smokeping slaves on older Debian systems (and other distributions) for me. Example: I have defined a smokeping probe like this on my master: ,---- | + FPing6 | binary = /usr/bin/fping | timeout = 30 `---- This configuration is sent to each slave, but on the slaves running Stretch, Jessie or Wheezy this will result in errors, because the older "/usr/bin/fping" binary is not IPv6 capable. My workaround is to create a symlink /usr/bin/fping6 -> /usr/bin/fping on the master server and change the probe (back) to ,---- | + FPing6 | binary = /usr/bin/fping6 | timeout = 30 `---- so the configuration is valid for any system. I think you need to provide this compatibility symlink in the package for at least the Buster release cycle, maybe even for the one after that so that scripts and multi-server environments can be migrated. Grüße, Sven. -- Package-specific info: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42988 Jun 18 23:28 /usr/bin/fping lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Jul 7 12:59 /usr/bin/fping6 -> fping -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (200, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: amd64 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages fping depends on: ii libc6 2.24-17 ii libcap2-bin 1:2.25-1 ii netbase 5.4 fping recommends no packages. fping suggests no packages. -- debconf-show failed
