Skip to content

drop package: no release since 2004; repo has newer alternative

Task Info (Flyspray)
Opened By Marcell Meszaros (MarsSeed)
Task ID 79456
Type Support Request
Project Arch Linux
Category Packages: Extra
Version None
OS x86_64
Opened 2023-08-23 17:43:30 UTC
Status Assigned
Assignee Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Assignee Levente Polyak (anthraxx)

Details

Description: Consider removing gnu-netcat from repo.

Rationale: This has not seen a new release since 2004. [a] The project is also unsupported and the maintainers are unresponsive since at least 2012. [b] Upstream's Subversion repo only continued to receive (a few) patches until 2013. [c]

Arch repo carries the actively maintained alternative:

  • extra/openbsd-netcat (last upstream release: Jun 10, 2023)

Both that and this package defines the virtual provides 'netcat'.

Nothing depends specifically on gnu-netcat.

No disruption expected by deleting it from repo.

Refs: [a]: https://sourceforge.net/projects/netcat/files/netcat/ [b]: https://sourceforge.net/p/netcat/support-requests/6/ [c]: https://sourceforge.net/p/netcat/code/HEAD/tree/

To upload designs, you'll need to enable LFS and have an admin enable hashed storage. More information