iputils-arping appropriate for standard?

James Troup james.troup at canonical.com
Wed Aug 18 19:42:51 BST 2010


Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> writes:

> I don't really want to have a protracted argument over it since it's
> pretty small (23KB), and I generally like the idea of having some
> useful networking tools in standard; but it does seem like a
> relatively abstruse debugging tool to me.  Perhaps we should move this
> to supported somewhere, keeping it in main for security support but
> taking it off the CD?

I'm totally fine with that, FWIW.  If I'm the only reason it's in main,
I'm also fine with it being demoted.  It's a useful tool but one that I
personally use infrequently.

-- 
James



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