inetutils-ping is missing the -b option compared to iputils-ping

[Arnaud Soyez]

The /bin/ping from inetutils-ping is missing the -b option compared to iputils-ping. This causes a bug to gnome-nettools for example.

$ ping -b 127.0.0.1
ping: invalid option -- 'b'
?: not implemented

inetutils-ping:
  Installé : 2:1.5.dfsg.1-8ubuntu1
  Candidat : 2:1.5.dfsg.1-8ubuntu1

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: inetutils-ping 2:1.5.dfsg.1-8ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/username/scripts
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SourcePackage: inetutils
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Antono Vasiljev (antono)]

there is a patch for this: http://<email address hidden>/msg02398.html