Hi, I would like to propose a patch with alternatives support.
Before doing this there are some things to confirm: - are you willing to accept such a patch? - are /usr/sbin/arping-arping and /usr/share/man/man8/arping- arping.8.gz good name choices for the files installed by this package? - iputils-arping installs /usr/bin/arping while arping installs /usr/sbin/arping - I do not think it is a good idea to resolve this by linking /usr/bin/arping to /usr/sbin/iputils-arping, because it will create an ambiguity that depends on PATH. Maybe it is a better idea to make /usr/bin/arping a link to the alternative /usr/sbin/arping? >From the implementation point of view, in order to have some backward compatibility, maybe it will be best to make it using the built-in way of debhelper 13.1 but keep arping.alternatves as disabled and use the dh_installalternatives generated products in the package instead. With best regards, b.
