Control: tags -1 + confirmed On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 14:13 -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > 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; please go ahead. Regards, Adam
