netcat -q default behavior, should it be reverted?

[Janåke Rönnblom]

Hi,

I agree with Robbie on this. You should never change the de factor parameters for a unix command tool.

I for one could easily be bitten by this "bug" and would probably take forever to find it.

-J

On 22 dec 2010, at 23.02, Etienne Goyer wrote:

> 
> Robbie is of the opinion that the behavior should be reverted back to
> the upstream default in Natty, but left as is in current release.  Me, I
> do not know.  On one hand, this would against the SRU policy, with sound
> rationale.  On the other, this "bug" can be extremely frustrating to
> those that hit it.  I think, at the very least, this would need to be
> documented *somehow*.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 

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