Package: iputils-ping
Version: 3:20161105-1
Severity: minor
File: iputils
Dear Maintainer,
The man page for ping(8) has the following text in the AVAILABILITY section:
ping is part of iputils package and the latest versions are available
in source form at http://www.skbuff.net/iputils/iputils-cur‐
rent.tar.bz2.
This url is a 404. Furthermore, the skbuff.net/iputils page only seems to have
archive releases, with the current source maintained at
https://github.com/iputils/iputils.
I have confirmed that the issue is present in the latest version of the man
page in collab-maint, as well:
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/iputils.git/tree/doc/ping.sgml
But the latest version in the upstream github has it fixed:
https://github.com/iputils/iputils/blob/master/doc/ping.xml
I found out about this from someone in a networking context who needed to
look at ping's source to diagnose an ICMP issue, and was frustrated by how
unnecessarily roundabout it was to find that source.
sney
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.10
APT prefers oldstable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages iputils-ping depends on:
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u10
ii libcap2 1:2.24-8
ii libgnutls-openssl27 3.3.8-6+deb8u7
Versions of packages iputils-ping recommends:
ii libcap2-bin 1:2.24-8
iputils-ping suggests no packages.
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