Package Request: netcat-openbsd

[dkoao]

Package description
netcat-openbsd is a very useful tool for all sorts of networking magic, for example, it can be used as an HTTP client, or as an SSH ProxyCommand (The Tor Project recommends netcat-openbsd as the netcat variant of choice to use with SSH).

Link to home page and sources

1. Home page: https://packages.debian.org/sid/netcat-openbsd
2. Source code: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/netcat-openbsd (Upstream: https://github.com/openbsd/src/tree/master/usr.bin/nc)

Here's how it's packaged among distributions:

• Arch Linux: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/blob/packages/openbsd-netcat/trunk/PKGBUILD

• Alpine Linux: https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main/netcat-openbsd?h=master

Additional information
Have you compiled or tried to compile the package on device? No.

[normanr]

See #162 for history. It seems that the openbsd-netcat was more work to package than ncat from nmap.

[dkoao]

Thank you so much for adding this package! I appreciate this a lot.