Subject: Re: bug#38666: Maybe netcat should support ipv6 ("-6" option)

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 22:11:51 -0400

Hi,

Danny Milosavljevic <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> maybe netcat should support ipv6 ("-6" option).
>
> The latest official release on Sourceforge doesn't have it but Debian includes a patch to add it.

Debian doesn't seem to be using GNU netcat anymore; their control file
[0] mentions the home page to be [1], and the version is at 1.10, not
that this is very useful.

I wouldn't remove the package since it seems to be still functioning
despite seemingly abandoned.

[0]  https://salsa.debian.org/debian/netcat/-/blob/master/debian/control
[1]  http://www.stearns.org/nc/