I recently took maintainership of arpwatch after it was orphaned by the previous
maintainer. This package has a particularly long history in Fedora, carries quite a few
patches, and had seen no upstream releases in many years until late 2019.
I just updated Rawhide to ship the latest upstream version, 3.1; the entire spec file has
been modernized and de-crufted, and I have reviewed and dropped, rebased, or rewritten
every patch or extra source file carried by the Fedora package. (I will send all remaining
patches and extra sources upstream for consideration prior to the release of Fedora 34; I
am waiting for further testing before doing so.)
I’ve made all these changes very carefully; still, given the scope of the necessary
changes, I would especially appreciate testing and feedback from any arpwatch users, as
well as from anyone who feels like auditing the current spec file and/or patches
(
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/arpwatch/tree/master).
– Ben Beasley