Package: fping
Version: 5.1-1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
I recently tried to use fping's relatively new `--fast-reachable` feature (introduced in fping 5.2) on Debian and noticed that the package is at its upstream release 5.1 still on sid.
Upstream is at 5.3 and has implemented a number of interesting improvements, which is why it'd be really great to have it included in Debian, too.
Relevant changelogs:
- 5.2:
https://github.com/schweikert/fping/releases/tag/v5.2
- 5.3:
https://github.com/schweikert/fping/releases/tag/v5.3
(I would have very much liked to created a MR for you on salsa, but I was not able to figure out the workflow you use to sync new upstream sources into a commit there... if you (briefly :)) outline how to do it, I'd be glad to try preparing a suitable merge request.)
-- Package-specific info:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 52240 Feb 7 2022 /usr/bin/fping
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 7 2022 /usr/bin/fping6 -> fping
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.10
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-34-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages fping depends on:
ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u10
ii libcap2-bin 1:2.66-4
ii netbase 6.4
fping recommends no packages.
fping suggests no packages.
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