On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 13:27:42 +1100 Gaetan Bisson <bisson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi guys, > > Currently we use the BIND code base in two packages: > - dnsutils from [core] provides basic DNS query tools; > - bind from [extra] is the actual name server. > > With the new BIND10 release, the ISC really outdid themselves: all > formerly standalone tools have been merged and rewritten as a python > script which uses bindings to the new libb10-* series of libraries that > are shared with the name server. Python being such a boring dependency, > they introduced another three: botan, log4cplus, and boost! > > That mostly means two things: > - We cannot keep splitting dnsutils and bind anymore. > - I do not want to maintain these packages any further. > > We already have ldns in [core], a much better written (and sane) DNS > library which includes query tools that are near drop-in replacements > for BIND's: use `drill` instead of `dig`, etc. > > So I suggest: > - Any package relying on dnsutils and its tools (dig, host, nslookup) be > ported to use ldns instead - should be straightforward in most cases. > - We ditch dnsutils and bind out of our repos, unless somebody finds > them fun and wants to maintain them in [extra] or [community]. > > Comments or suggestions are welcome. > > Cheers. > Great. I was actually going to open a feature request for this on flyspray. The only thing: whouldn't one need community/unbound (unbound-host AFAIR) to replace nslookup? -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D
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