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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 11.04.2016 um 18:31 schrieb Thomas Habets:
> 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.

I don't think we want that. If arping and iputils-arping want to be
interchangable arping implementations, they should find a common interface.


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