On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 10:57 AM Florian Smeets <f...@smeets.xyz> wrote:

> On 26.08.19 06:28, Jan Sucan wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I can implement it. I suppose that ping6's manual page should be kept it
> > this case.
> >
> > I was also thinking about printing a warning for each option renamed to
> > lead a willing user to use the new unified option set of ping. It could
> > be either only with -v, or by default and suppressed with -q. Or should
> > the option translation be completely transparent?
>
> Is there an update on this? I found out the hard way today, as I updated
> my icinga2 host from an revision before this change to a current
> revision. In this case it's not as easy as fixing a script e.g.
> net-mgmt/monitoring-plugins check_ping command calls /sbin/ping6 with -X.
>
> Will we get a ping6 that is fully backward compatible, or should we
> start fixing ports?
>
> Thanks,
> Florian
>

Still a work in progress, though there hasn't been any progress lately.
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21434
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