Re: [bug-inetutils] ping: -c 0 vs. -c 3 as default..

[Guillem Jover]

On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 13:30:39 -0400, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Alfred M. Szmidt <address@hidden> wrote:
> >   And I don't think I've ever liked the change, and I'm happy it has
> >   been reverted now, so I think I'll be packaging a git snapshot for
> >   Debian pretty soon.
> >
> > I'd prefer not to see a CVS version of inetutils packaged in Debian,
> > since it puts a extra burden on us; we would have to make sure that
> > the CVS version is always usable/stable.  I am planing on making a new
> > release very soon.

> There is no burden on upstream - the right answer to distro consumers of a
> package who come upstream looking for help is to refer them back to the
> distro.

Right, the distributions should be the ones filtering downstream bug
reports, support requests, etc, before sending them to upstream. Also
if something breaks due to a snapshot, then that's the distribution
responsibility, not upstream's.

Anyway, if a new release is imminent, then I'd certainly wait, it's
just that inetutils' releases have been pretty sporadic and given last
one was recently, I was not expcting one in the near future. :)

regards,
guillem