Your message dated Sun, 20 Mar 2011 22:28:45 +0000
with message-id <[email protected]>
and subject line Bug#618315: fixed in libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl 0.20-2
has caused the Debian Bug report #618315,
regarding libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl: README.Debian misrepresents the nature of
the bin/get{addr, name}info binaries
to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.
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618315: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=618315
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Package: libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl
Version: 0.20-1
Severity: minor
README.Debian states:
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Since version 0.20, upstream have distributed getnameinfo and getaddrinfo
as scripts in the bin directory. Since the functionality of these
scripts is a subset of that provided by 'dig' and 'nslookup',
we feel that these are better considered examples and have been installed
as such. The utilities dig and nslookup can be found in the 'dnsutils' package.
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This isn't really correct. 'dig' and 'nslookup' are both DNS clients;
they directly talk DNS to diagnose DNS problems.
bin/getaddrinfo is a tiny commandline wrapper around libc's
getaddrinfo(3) call, which may use DNS as part of its work, if that's
what /etc/nsswitch.conf says. getaddrinfo(3) is of course not limited to
DNS, taking information also from /etc/hosts or other libnss-* modules
such as LDAP or MySQL.
The functionalliy of bin/getaddrinfo is neither a subset of nor a
superset of that provided by dig or nslookup; it is however somewhat
related. The utility of bin/getaddrinfo is that it provides a shell
output showing _exactly_ what a normal userland binary would do to
resolve hostnames into addresses; INCLUDING the IPv4/IPv6 ordering. This
ordering can be the subject of many subtle bugs in connections, either
causing timeouts, delays, or outright failures. It is useful to have a
commandline debug tool for getaddrinfo(3) in such scenarios. Neither
'dig' nor 'nslookup' can be of any help diagnosing these problems.
I understand your decision not to ship these binaries in a package
called libFOO-perl; but please do include them somewhere. I for one rely
on them being installed on my machines for my own debugging and testing
of IPv6-related connection failures, and the fact that your upstream
package now removes them actually removes them from my own machines.
Perhaps these could be shipped in a -bin package? E.g. I notice a lot of
shared librares (e.g. ncurses) has a related package of binaries
(ncurses-bin). Perhaps these two binaries can be shipped in the
slightly-unwieldy libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl-bin ?
At the very least, can you please update the README.Debian to some
slightly more accurate wording?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii perl 5.10.1-17 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-base [perlapi-5.10.1] 5.10.1-17 minimal Perl system
libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl recommends no packages.
Versions of packages libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl suggests:
ii dnsutils 1:9.7.3.dfsg-1 Clients provided with BIND
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl
Source-Version: 0.20-2
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP
archive:
libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl_0.20-2.debian.tar.gz
to
main/libs/libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl/libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl_0.20-2.debian.tar.gz
libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl_0.20-2.dsc
to main/libs/libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl/libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl_0.20-2.dsc
libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl_0.20-2_i386.deb
to
main/libs/libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl/libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl_0.20-2_i386.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Nicholas Bamber <[email protected]> (supplier of updated
libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl package)
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Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:20:21 +0000
Source: libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl
Binary: libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl
Architecture: source i386
Version: 0.20-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Nicholas Bamber <[email protected]>
Description:
libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl - module implementing getaddrinfo and getnameinfo
Closes: 618315
Changes:
libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl (0.20-2) unstable; urgency=low
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* Rewrite README.Debian incorporating material from
upstream author and install scripts with new names (Closes: #618315)
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