[gnome-network] Bug#699828: gnome-nettool: Ping not compatible with iputils-ping

[Josselin Mouette <joss debian org>]

Le mardi 05 fÃvrier 2013 Ã 18:15 +0100, Nick Andrik a Ãcrit : 
> When attempting to use Ping, having installed iputils-ping, I got the
> following message:

You mean inetutils-ping ? It works perfectly with iputils-ping.

> An error occurred when try to run 'Ping'
> /bin/ping ping -b -c 5 -n www.google.com
> 
> 
> It seems that the tool adds an extra word (ping) rendering the ping
> functionality unusable.

No, it is argv[0] so this is expected.

> This problem has also been reported in Ubuntu:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-nettool/+bug/1011367
> 
> A proper resolution should also consider the bug #639158 :
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=639158

This one is about inetutils-ping, and I can indeed reproduce it.

Cheers,
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