netcat -q default behavior, should it be reverted?

[Etienne Goyer]

Just to be clear, Janake, I do agree we should revert back to the
default behavior in Natty.  I am wondering about what should be done in
current release (hardy, lucid, maverick).

On 10-12-22 05:17 PM, Janåke Rönnblom wrote:
> 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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