libnet error

[Jonathan Steel]

The bug was reported to me incorrectly. I have determined what the 
actual problem is, and it the problem is in libnet0, not libnet1.

I have sent a message to the Debian developers as well at: 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=536202

The response was as follows:

Sorry about the mistake, but there was a confusion between the libnet0 
and libnet1 packages on Ubuntu. I have personally investigated this bug 
now and found that there is no problem with libnet-1.1.x, but rather the 
libnet0 package, which is libnet-1.0.2a.

It looks like libnet1 has fixed this exact problem. The patch that was 
given was actually for libnet-1.0.2a.

Again, sorry for the confusion.

Thanks
Jonathan Steel

Fabrice Coutadeur wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just reported the bug to Debian, as this package comes directly 
> from Debian:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=536202
>
> Fabrice
>
> 2009/7/7 Jonathan Steel <jon.steel at esentire.com 
> <mailto:jon.steel at esentire.com>>
>
>     Hi David, MOTU
>
>     I have discovered a bug in libnet1 on a 64 bit Ubuntu machine. I'm
>     sure the problem is from the original source as well, but since
>     the homepage for libnet1 seems to not exist anymore, I can't tell.
>
>     Basically the issue is that some of the data types were not
>     explicitly declared to use a certain byte width, and so the
>     structs differ on a 64 bit machine in a way they are not supposed to.
>
>     Here is a bug report on the issue:
>
>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libnet/+bug/394784
>
>     My company is going to just branch off from your package until the
>     bug is fixed, but I just wanted to make the developers of libnet
>     know about the problem. Looks like you guys are the only ones I
>     can find working on this library.
>
>     Thanks
>
>     Jonathan Steel
>
>
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