[arch-dev-public] [RFC] replace traceroute

[Stéphane Gaudreault]

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Le 2012-06-12 09:43, Gaetan Bisson a écrit :
> [2012-06-12 09:31:32 -0400] Stéphane Gaudreault:
>> I got this feature request:
>> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28877
>>
>> As the new traceroute does not seems to depend on anything in iputils, I
>> think that it would be better to provide it in a new, independant
>> package. I do not see why this should be in [core], so I propose to put
>> it into [extra] and install everything under /usr.
>
> Well ping and traceroute are canonical tools to test connectivity; that
> makes them quite valuable in [core], to my humble opinion. It is also
> helpful to have them bundled in a single package. Are there clear-cut
> advantages that the new traceroute would offer over the iputils' one?
>
> Cheers.
>

The new traceroute seems to have a more active upstream maintainer and
it is the version included in most major distro [1]. I do not have a
strong opinion about uploading it in [core] or [extra], so [core] could
be fine. However, I do not like to include things from different
projects/upstream in a single package.

Regards,

Stéphane

[1] http://traceroute.sourceforge.net

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