#945579 prips: Please add IPv6 support

Package:
prips
Source:
prips
Description:
tool that prints the IP addresses in a given range
Submitter:
Axel Beckert
Date:
2019-11-27 10:45:05 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#945579#5
Date:
2019-11-27 10:31:32 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

I just noticed that while prips' documentation talks always of "IP
addresses", it actually only supports IPv4 addresses, but not IPv6
addresses:

$ prips 2001:db8::/124
prips: bad IP address
$

So please add support for IPv6 addresses. Or at least update the
documentation (and package description) to talk about "IPv4 addresses"
instead of "IP addresses").