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netcat-openbsd package

  1. Bug #544935
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 544935

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Moritz Grimm (mgrimm-astaro) wrote :

Hello Soren,

thank you for your explanation.

I am in complete agreement with Stefan; it is a bad idea to change the default behavior of a defacto-standard utility as a workaround for a bug in a different (and apparently Linux-only) product, regardless of how long it's been like that on Ubuntu.

On a side-note, the -q option is not part of netcat on OpenBSD. It's a Debian extension. People relying on netcat-openbsd to behave like netcat on OpenBSD do not know about -q.

It should be reclassified as a bug.

Regards,

Moritz