Hi Nick, Am Wed, Aug 19, 2026 at 11:28:50PM -0400 schrieb Nick Bowler: > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/rarpd/-/tree/master/debian/patches?ref_type=heads > > > > I have *not* created those *.diff files and hope you can obtain their > > purpose from the header metadata. I simply tried to adapt the former > > patches to the old version to latest upstream. Please expect that I > > might have made mistakes when doing so! > > Thanks for reaching out! At a quick glance it does looks like a few > of these diffs do address real bugs which I have inherited from iputils > into the rarpd-dx package.
Happy to keep you in the row. :-) > I have some pending changes for a future release which I think will > address a subset of the issues in a different way. In my limited spare > time I have been slowly adapting this package to be more my own style. Can you do some estimation of time (just roughly in weeks / months). This will influence my decision whether I might upload the Debian package as is and update later or simply wait until you have issued a new release. > > I would welcome if you could review those patches and integrate these > > (if applicable) to a new upstream release. If you do so please ping me. > > I'll see what I can do. > > My current focus for rarpd-dx is to implement a verification environment > so we can get test coverage for these problems and shake out any fixes. Sounds very promising. It would be great if you could keep me informed. Kind regards Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de
