On Thu, 2023-11-30 at 15:38 -0500, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 08:24:18PM +0100, Thomas Braun wrote: > > Now I would like to know if being able to run in an IPv6-only > > environment is > > a must have feature for any debian package? > > I have no idea what the project's stance is, but I don't regard this > as > a particularly high bar, it tends to take some pretty heavy and > gnarly usage > of legacy api surface to render programs show stoppingly broken.
I'd be inclined to agree. Running IPv6-only is relatively rare but not unheard of, especially in larger environments where IPv4 address space is in short supply. I recently submitted a patch for uvloop that was FTBFS on IPv6-only builds (#1024079) and it really didn't take very long. While building/running in IPv6-only environments is not currently mandated in the Policy it's a fairly safe bet that it could/should be in future updates, so it makes sense to start making all packages agnostic of IP version now. Best regards, Dale Richards
