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arping package

Conflict with network manager, why?

Bug #119597 reported by Alessandro Tanasi on 2007-06-09

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	arping (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
	network-manager (Debian)	Fix Released	Unknown	debbugs #487794

Bug Description

Binary package hint: arping

the conflict with network manager in necessary?
and if the user is warned to only disable network manager when using arping?

Revision history for this message

Giuseppe Iuculano (giuseppe-iuculano) wrote on 2008-06-23:

arping doesn't conflict with network manager, but with iputils-arping. network-manager has iputils-arping in Depends.

Changed in arping:
status:	New → Invalid

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-06-25

Changed in network-manager:
status:	Unknown → New

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-07-06

Changed in network-manager:
status:	New → Fix Released

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Michael Basse (michael-alpha-unix) wrote on 2013-01-02:

i can still reproduce this bug on ubuntu 12.04 lts

michael@bestbuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install arping
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libnet1
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  iputils-arping network-manager network-manager-gnome
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  arping libnet1
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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