In version 4.0-2 fping6 is not installed

[rhhoek]

When installing fping in Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful) only the binary for fping (for IPv4) is installed and not fping6 (for IPv6).

$ sudo apt install fping
[sudo] password for hoek:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
fping is already the newest version (4.0-2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
$ fping6
The program 'fping6' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt install fping

[Axel Beckert (xtaran)]

This is on purpose. fping6 is no more needed. fping can do IPv4 and IPv6. Please see /usr/share/doc/fping/changelog.Debian.gz.

The reason that command-not-found suggests to install fping for fping6 sounds like an out of date apt-file database.

Do you think an entry in NEWS.Debian would have helped?

[rhhoek (r-h-hoek)]

Thank you Axel. With your comment in #1 I now understand the changelog.
And it is superb that the binaries are merged.
I don't know if an entry in NEWS.Debian would have helped me. I think it could help others.
A explicit mention of the merge of the two binaries in version 4.0 in the changelog would have certainly helped me.

Thanks for your time.

[Axel Beckert (xtaran)]

@rhhoek: Thanks for the response: Will add a NEWS.Debian file with an according entry. If you have apt-listchanges installed, you will be either shown or mailed that entry when you update the package.

Not sure if that will still make it into Ubuntu Artful. In case the freeze for Artful is already in place, it will likely need some action from some Ubuntu guy to still get it into Artful. (I'm Debian's maintainer of the fping package.)

[Axel Beckert (xtaran)]

Fixed in the 4.0-3 upload to Debian Unstable by adding a NEWS.Debian file. Now the package just needs to be synced to Ubuntu to fix this in Ubuntu, too.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package fping - 4.0-5

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fping (4.0-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Use "pod2man -u" to convert debian/fping6.pod properly wrt. UTF-8.
  * Use HTTPS in debian/watch.
  * Declare compliance with Debian Policy 4.1.1. (No changes needed.)
  * Fix warning output in postinst to emit file name again. (Regression
    introduced in 4.0~rc3-1.)
  * debian/postinst: Use $(…) instead of backticks.
  * Fallback to setuid installation if setcap fails and no statoverride
    exists. (Closes: #801431)

 -- Axel Beckert <email address hidden> Fri, 27 Oct 2017 22:29:09 +0200