Source: netcat-openbsd Section: net Priority: important Maintainer: Guilhem Moulin Standards-Version: 4.6.1 Rules-Requires-Root: no Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), iproute2 [linux-any] , libbsd-dev, pkg-config, procps [linux-any] , strace [linux-any] Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/netcat-openbsd.git -b debian/latest Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/netcat-openbsd Package: netcat-openbsd Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Provides: netcat Breaks: netcat (<< 1.10-35) Replaces: netcat (<< 1.10-35) Description: TCP/IP swiss army knife A simple Unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections using TCP or UDP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable "back-end" tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities. . This package contains the OpenBSD rewrite of netcat, including support for IPv6, proxies, and Unix sockets.