Debian Bug report logs - #482979
manpages-dev: inet_aton() is not POSIX

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Package: manpages-dev; Maintainer for manpages-dev is Dr. Tobias Quathamer <[email protected]>; Source for manpages-dev is src:manpages (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Stephane Chazelas <[email protected]>

Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 10:42:05 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed-upstream

Found in version manpages/2.79-4

Fixed in version manpages/3.01-1

Done: Joey Schulze <[email protected]>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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#482979: manpages-dev: inet_aton() is not POSIX

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From: Joey Schulze <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Bug#482979: fixed in manpages 3.01-1
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:32:04 +0000
Source: manpages
Source-Version: 3.01-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
manpages, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

manpages-dev_3.01-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/m/manpages/manpages-dev_3.01-1_all.deb
manpages_3.01-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/m/manpages/manpages_3.01-1.diff.gz
manpages_3.01-1.dsc
  to pool/main/m/manpages/manpages_3.01-1.dsc
manpages_3.01-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/m/manpages/manpages_3.01-1_all.deb
manpages_3.01.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/m/manpages/manpages_3.01.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
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Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:11:49 +0200
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Version: 3.01-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Joey Schulze <[email protected]>
Description: 
 manpages   - Manual pages about using a GNU/Linux system
 manpages-dev - Manual pages about using GNU/Linux for development
Closes: 482979 482987 485636 486920 487254
Changes: 
 manpages (3.01-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version
     . inet_aton() is *not* in POSIX.1 (closes: Bug#482979)
     . Improvements to inet_pton() (closes: Bug#482987)
     . Improvements to nanosleep(2) (closes: Bug#485636)
     . Added errors section for scanf(3) (closes: Bug#487254)
     . Document guest time in proc(5) (closes: Bug#486920)
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From: Stephane Chazelas <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: manpages-dev: inet_aton() is not POSIX
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 11:37:20 +0100
Package: manpages-dev
Version: 2.79-4
Severity: normal


Hiya,

The CONFORMING TO section of inet_aton(3) says:

CONFORMING TO
       4.3BSD.  inet_addr(), inet_aton(), and inet_ntoa() are
       specified in POSIX.1-2001.


AFAICT, that is not correct.

POSIX only specifies inet_addr, inet_pton and inet_ntoa.
(AFAICT from
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/idx/functions.html)

The man page also says that inet_addr is obsoleted by inet_ntoa.

I think it should either warn that inet_ntoa is not POSIX or
that inet_addr is obsoleted by inet_pton instead (as the
inet_pton man page says BTW) but then warn that inet_pton
doesn't recognise all the IP address notations that inet_addr
recognises. Or something like: "one may consider the inet_pton,
inet_ntoa (non-POSIX), getaddrinfo, gethostbyname alternatives
that don't have the problem" [of inet_addr returning
(in_attr_t)-1 for 255.255.255.255]

The SEE ALSO section could also mention getaddrinfo (that
obsoletes gethostbyname).

Best regards,
Stephane

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Versions of packages manpages-dev depends on:
ii  manpages                      2.79-4     Manual pages about using a GNU/Lin

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