[Nut-upsdev] Re: [nut-Patches][304310] IP v6 support

[Arjen de Korte]

> On 1/4/07, nut-patches at alioth.debian.org <nut-patches at alioth.debian.org>
> wrote:
> [...]
>> >Comment By: Arjen de Korte (adkorte-guest)
>> Date: 2007-01-04 15:49
>>
>> Message:
>> This should be a feature request, not a patch.
>
> Arjen,
>
> when I was cleaning up the patch tracker before, I was trying to
> separate "patches that need integration" from "feature requests that
> don't have patches yet".
>
> It's been a while since I looked closely at this patch. Do you think
> it belongs in "feature requests" because the patch doesn't cover the
> entire task of supporting IPv6?

I (maybe wrongly) assumed that 'patches' are 'bugreports-with-patch' and
fix something that is broken. Following that reasoning, it should be a
'feature request', since there is nothing to be patched (yet). We never
said that NUT supports IPv6, so its not broken.

Best regards, Arjen