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

Mon Apr 11 16:31:00 UTC 2016

On 11 April 2016 at 17:16, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:

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

To clarify what I meant: network-manager is preventing `arping` from being
installed, which means it's preventing people writing portable scripts.

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

Which is why I'm suggesting that network-manager should be able to aware
enough to work with either.
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