Bug#732999: X11::Protocol fails to connect to X servers over IPv6

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 18:54:58 +0000, Ivan Shmakov wrote:

> Package: libx11-protocol-perl
> Version: 0.56-4
> Tags: ipv6, patch
 
> 	The INETSocket.pm module, as used by X11::Protocol, does
> 	currently rely on IO::Socket::INET, thus supporting connections
> 	over IPv4 only.

That's a pity, thanks for trying to improve this situation.

(As a side note: the module hasn't seen any upstream activity in
years ...)
 
> 	An (untested) change is MIMEd.

Could you please:
- provide a proper quilt patch against our git repo patch instead of
  instructions what needs to be done where
- actually test the changes :)
 

Cheers,
gregor

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