Re: ping6 and other tool6 awkwardness

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On Tue, 2015-05-12 at 09:04 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > While working for an updated ipcalc to support ipv6 transparently, I
> > figured we have more tools which are not IPv6-ready and awkwardly
> > provide an additional tool with a -6 suffix, supposedly for separate
> > IPv6 support. That looks like a relic of the past, we still drag. IPv6
> > support should be transparent in programs (fortunately we don't have
> > ssh6). Any objection to fill bugs to merge the following tools with
> > their ipv4 equivalent?
> > 
> > ping6, geoiplookup6, tracepath6, traceroute6
> 
> While I agree with your assessment of the separate tools, I think
> you're better off filing bugs with the upstream projects.

I'm interested in what fedora ships rather than the upstream project per
se. The fedora maintainer may chose to switch to another upstream
project if that is required.

regards,
Nikos


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