From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki Subject: Re: iputils git tree Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:18:33 +0900 Message-ID: <5018AE19.7050002@linux-ipv6.org> References: <201203182107.43855.vapier@gentoo.org> <20120801024656.GK11095@morgul.net> <20120731.202918.621064199466580610.davem@davemloft.net> <20120801040957.GL11095@morgul.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org, vapier@gentoo.org, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki To: Noah Meyerhans Return-path: Received: from 94.43.138.210.xn.2iij.net ([210.138.43.94]:47311 "EHLO mail.st-paulia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750888Ab2HAESh (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2012 00:18:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20120801040957.GL11095@morgul.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello. (2012=E5=B9=B408=E6=9C=8801=E6=97=A5 13:09), Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 08:29:18PM -0700, David Miller wrote: >> iputils has been unmaintained for at least 2 years. >> >> Someone needs to step up and take over maintainence of it. >> >> Otherwise, expect the current situation to continue. > > I was under the impresion that iputils had been handed over from Alex= ey > to Hideaki YOSHIFUJI. The fork at linux-ipv6.org certainly doesn't > appear dead. I count 12 commits this year to the repository visible = at > http://www.linux-ipv6.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=3Dgitroot/iputils.git;a= =3Dsummary > It's not exactly a screaming fast pace, but it's something. > > There are several (mostly relatively minor) bugs that have been fixed= in > the Debian packages (of which I'm the maintainer). There's another > assortment of patches in the Debian bug tracker that haven't yet been > merged in. I imagine Fedora and RHEL have a collection of similar > modifications. So I suspect that iputils really isn't dead, but it's > just that nobody's bothering to push changes back upstream. I'm more > than happy to start doing so. > > noah > In fact my first motivation was to integrate Debian, Fedora and other distro updates in to single source. I sometimes look into their sources and integrate some of their changes. Anyway, I am happy if distro changes are posted and discussed. Regards, --yoshfuji