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- Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
- Date: 2010-12-01 01:43:12 UTC
- Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20101201014312-mqb1bh22dfagzqsg
* Take over this package's maintenance, with maintainer's approval.
* netselect:
- Implement a -I option to make netselect use ICMP probes instead of UDP.
This option is useful to test servers when there is some element
that does not allow traceroute tests in the intermediate path
(including the local computer, through it's firewall).
(Closes: 601227, 217256, 384218)
- Do not printout verbose messages detailing hosts to stdout but
to stderr
* netselect.1:
- Document the new -I option
- Add more examples, specifically describing the issues with multiple
DNS names in hosts.
* netselect-apt:
- Introduce a way to provide options to netselect through -O
- Check if netselect exists
- Abort if not being run as root and netselect is not setuid
- Use -I per default as many debian mirrors do not actually allow
traceroute tests
- Only use standard output when parsing netselect's output, stderr
gets thrown out as we do not need it (but the user might have
set it with -v calls in -O)
- Stricter filtering of netselect output to prevent picking up
wrong data by mistake
* debian/netselect.README.Debian: More information on why netselect
needs to be run as ROOT.
* debian/control:
- Update Homepage to github
- Update SVN-Browse to github, keep the URL of collab-main
in debian/README.source
* debian/EXTRA: include modified version of netselect-apt by
Manuel Estrada Sainz a long time ago (2002) which provides additional
features such as testing for other protocols (rsync, ftp, http)
and checking that the mirrors actually work. This code needs to
be forward ported to netselect-apt in order to close 135558. But having
it in the package at least ensures it is not forgotten.
* debian/TODO: review all pending work to be done and include it in the
file, reference bug reports when appropriate.
* debian/netselect-apt.NEWS and debian/netselect.NEWS: Fix version
numbers as they pointed to inexistent versions
* netselect:
- Implement a -I option to make netselect use ICMP probes instead of UDP.
This option is useful to test servers when there is some element
that does not allow traceroute tests in the intermediate path
(including the local computer, through it's firewall).
(Closes: 601227, 217256, 384218)
- Do not printout verbose messages detailing hosts to stdout but
to stderr
* netselect.1:
- Document the new -I option
- Add more examples, specifically describing the issues with multiple
DNS names in hosts.
* netselect-apt:
- Introduce a way to provide options to netselect through -O
- Check if netselect exists
- Abort if not being run as root and netselect is not setuid
- Use -I per default as many debian mirrors do not actually allow
traceroute tests
- Only use standard output when parsing netselect's output, stderr
gets thrown out as we do not need it (but the user might have
set it with -v calls in -O)
- Stricter filtering of netselect output to prevent picking up
wrong data by mistake
* debian/netselect.README.Debian: More information on why netselect
needs to be run as ROOT.
* debian/control:
- Update Homepage to github
- Update SVN-Browse to github, keep the URL of collab-main
in debian/README.source
* debian/EXTRA: include modified version of netselect-apt by
Manuel Estrada Sainz a long time ago (2002) which provides additional
features such as testing for other protocols (rsync, ftp, http)
and checking that the mirrors actually work. This code needs to
be forward ported to netselect-apt in order to close 135558. But having
it in the package at least ensures it is not forgotten.
* debian/TODO: review all pending work to be done and include it in the
file, reference bug reports when appropriate.
* debian/netselect-apt.NEWS and debian/netselect.NEWS: Fix version
numbers as they pointed to inexistent versions
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