Control: tags -1 -moreinfo On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 10:11:23PM +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. > > In general our workflow is for patches to be applied to unstable first > where appropriate, so that sounds like the best approach; thanks for > confirming.
iputils with the applied fixes is now in sid and bullseye. I'd like to get this into the next buster update. Thanks noah
