Bug#881639: nmap: Please ship ncat as a separate package

[Christoph Biedl]

Source: nmap
Version: 7.60+dfsg2-1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

The clevis package (ITP #854410) needs a netcat for the dracut unlocker,
and an alpha tester reported the implementations provided by both
-traditional and -openbsd don't fit the needs. I was told Redhat (where
clevis comes from) uses nmap's ncat for nc, and things work fine then.

However, I'm somewhat reluctant to depend on the entire nmap package
just to get ncat. So I'm asking you to ship ncat as a separate package,
and also register it as a nc alternative as requested in #560377.

Regards,

    Christoph

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