On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 13:27:42 +1100 Gaetan Bisson <bisson@archlinux.org> wrote:
Hi guys,
Currently we use the BIND code base in two packages: - dnsutils from [core] provides basic DNS query tools; - bind from [extra] is the actual name server.
With the new BIND10 release, the ISC really outdid themselves: all formerly standalone tools have been merged and rewritten as a python script which uses bindings to the new libb10-* series of libraries that are shared with the name server. Python being such a boring dependency, they introduced another three: botan, log4cplus, and boost!
That mostly means two things: - We cannot keep splitting dnsutils and bind anymore. - I do not want to maintain these packages any further.
We already have ldns in [core], a much better written (and sane) DNS library which includes query tools that are near drop-in replacements for BIND's: use `drill` instead of `dig`, etc.
So I suggest: - Any package relying on dnsutils and its tools (dig, host, nslookup) be ported to use ldns instead - should be straightforward in most cases. - We ditch dnsutils and bind out of our repos, unless somebody finds them fun and wants to maintain them in [extra] or [community].
Comments or suggestions are welcome.
Cheers.
Great. I was actually going to open a feature request for this on flyspray. The only thing: whouldn't one need community/unbound (unbound-host AFAIR) to replace nslookup? -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D