Hoi Muri, Debian already has the package 'sipcalc', which can do IP address 'calculations' and also understands IPv6. Did you have a look at that package and whether it has the features you need? If it does then there would be no need to package ipcalcng? *t
Am 06.06.2017 um 21:04 schrieb Muri Nicanor: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Muri Nicanor <m...@immerda.ch> > > * Package name : ipcalcng > Version : 0.2.0-1 > Upstream Author : Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos > * Url : https://github.com/nmav/ipcalc > * Licenses : BSD-3-Clause,GPL-2 > Programming Lang : C > Section : net > > This is a modern tool to assist in network address calculations for > IPv4 and IPv6. It acts both as a tool to output human readable > information about a network or address, as well as a tool suitable to > be used by scripts or other programs. > . > It supports printing a summary about the provided network address, > multiple command line options per information to be printed, > transparent IPv6 support, and in addition it will use libGeoIP if > available to provide geographic information. > > I'm an intense user of ipcalc, which is a really useful tool, but ipcalc > does not do IPv6 addresses. I've stumbled over the ipcalc by Nikos > Mavrogiannopoulos when looking for a version that is IPv6 capable. I'm > aware of the naming collision, thats why i propose to call the package > (and the binary) ipcalng. I'm not sure yet if that name is the right > solution, in particular because in fedora the perl ipcalc version was > renamed to ipcalculator and this one is now called ipcalc [0]. This > could lead to a lot of confusion and i would have to maintain that > change forever. If there are better solutions please let me know. > > cheers, > muri > > [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ipcalculator >
