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Bug#969240: playonlinux: please switch away from netcat

From Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject Bug#969240: playonlinux: please switch away from netcat
Date 2021-09-08 13:20 +0200
Message-ID <CV3Mu-1jd-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Control: severity -1 important

On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 01:52:37PM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> Control: severity -1 serious
> 
> * Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> [210820 11:49]:
> > playonlinux Depends on netcat. This is a transitional package on
> > netcat-openbsd, and the transitional package should go away sooner
> > than later, preferably in bullseye.
> 
> The transitional "netcat" package is now gone in bookworm.
> Your package is therefore now uninstallable.

This is not true due to both netcat-openbsd and netcat-traditional
providing netcat.

The dependency should be improved to either
  netcat-openbsd
or
  netcat-openbsd | netcat
but (assuming the package works with netcat-traditional) this is not
an RC bug.

> Chris

cu
Adrian

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Bug#969240: playonlinux: please switch away from netcat Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> - 2021-08-20 14:00 +0200
  Bug#969240: playonlinux: please switch away from netcat Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2021-09-08 13:20 +0200

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