Bug#948855: buster-pu: package iputils/3:20180629-2

[Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org>]

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On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 10:11:23PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > > > I'd like to fix 
> > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=947921 in
> > > > buster.  Ping has some issues coping with explicitly specified
> > > > source interfaces when pinging DNS names and DNS returns multiple
> > > > addresses via getaddrinfo().  Please see the commit messages and
> > > > the bug report for in-depth explanation of what's going on.
> > > 
> > > The metadata for that bug report suggests that it affects the
> > > iputils package in unstable, and is not currently fixed there. Is
> > > that correct?
> > 
> > That's correct.  Upstream has not yet made a release containing the
> > fix, nor have I backported it to the version currently in testing
> > (there are enough changes to make that nontrivial).  I am making my
> > request based on the patch author's report that it does, indeed, fix
> > the problem in buster, and the fact that the fix has been accepted
> > upstream.
> > 
> > If you'd prefer, we can wait until the next buster point release, by
> > which time we'll presumably have more testing of these patches.
> 
> In general our workflow is for patches to be applied to unstable first
> where appropriate, so that sounds like the best approach; thanks for
> confirming.

iputils with the applied fixes is now in sid and bullseye.  I'd like to
get this into the next buster update.

Thanks
noah