Control: tags -1 - moreinfo On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 10:11:38PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > I'd like to fix > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=947921 in > > buster. Ping has some issues coping with explicitly specified source > > interfaces when pinging DNS names and DNS returns multiple addresses > > via getaddrinfo(). Please see the commit messages and the bug report > > for in-depth explanation of what's going on. > > The metadata for that bug report suggests that it affects the iputils > package in unstable, and is not currently fixed there. Is that correct?
That's correct. Upstream has not yet made a release containing the fix, nor have I backported it to the version currently in testing (there are enough changes to make that nontrivial). I am making my request based on the patch author's report that it does, indeed, fix the problem in buster, and the fact that the fix has been accepted upstream. If you'd prefer, we can wait until the next buster point release, by which time we'll presumably have more testing of these patches. noah
