Netcat

[Christopher]

So, I'm trying to understand what's going on with netcat. If anybody can
enlighten me, I'd appreciate it. Here's what I've found so far:

It looks like rpms/nc was retired due to being orphaned for too long. It
looks like the same thing (almost) happened to rpms/nc6.

I think netcat is too important a tool to leave out of Fedora, and I'm
willing to maintain it. I took ownership of nc6, because it was a
dependency of hadoop. However, it looks like it was an unnecessary Requires
that could just be removed.

I checked upstream and nc6 looks like it was discontinued because nc now
supports IPv6 (according to nc6 docs). I haven't yet been able to confirm
whether the command lines are compatible, though, and Fedora packages/users
could simply switch over to using nc if they were previously using nc6.

The last information I found about nc on this mailing list is that nc was
obsoleted by nmap-ncat. Can anybody tell me if this is accurate? Am I just
giving myself a headache for no reason? Should nc and nc6 simply be dropped
entirely?

Thanks.

[Raphael Groner]

From my point of view, dropping both nc and nc6 is the right way.

# dnf whatprovides nc
Letzte Prüfung auf abgelaufene Metadaten: vor 0:37:24 am Thu Jun 16 19:04:21 2016.
nmap-ncat-2:7.12-1.fc24.x86_64 : Nmap's Netcat replacement
Quelle      : fedora

[Petr Šabata]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 05:18:06PM +0000, Christopher wrote:
>  The last information I found about nc on this mailing list is that nc
> was
>  obsoleted by nmap-ncat. Can anybody tell me if this is accurate? Am I just
>  giving myself a headache for no reason? Should nc and nc6 simply be dropped
>  entirely?
>  
>  Thanks. 
Yes, this is accurate.
P