[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#820697: Bug#820697: network-manager should support both 'arping' implementations

[Michael Biebl]

Control: severity -1 wishlist

Am 11.04.2016 um 15:49 schrieb thomas at habets.se:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.9.8.8
> 
> network-manager depends on package `iputils-arping`, which prevents
> the cross-platform `arping` package from being installed without
> removing network-manager.
> 
> If network-manager supported both, then either could be installed.
> 
> `arping` runs on many platforms whereas `iputils-arping` runs only on
> Linux, thus preventing portable scripting. I'm sure `iputils-arping`
> has *some* benefit too, but I don't know what that would be.

iputils-arping is the version supported by NM upstream.
Portability is no issue, since NM is Linux-only.

Afair, there were issues with arping and iputils-arping not being fully
command line compatible, so we couldn't use arping.

Laurent will probably know more.


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