Package: libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl Version: 0.20-1 Severity: minor README.Debian states:
--- 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. --- 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
