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

[Thomas Habets]

On 11 April 2016 at 17:45, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:

> > Which is why I'm suggesting that network-manager should be able to aware
> > enough to work with either.
> I don't think we want that. If arping and iputils-arping want to be
> interchangable arping implementations, they should find a common interface.
>

These are both 16+ year old implementations, so I think the best to hope
for is that a common interface subset can be used by network-manager. Or if
there is a missing (common) feature or flag that can be implemented without
breaking existing behaviour.

I grepped the source but did not find the actual command invocation.
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