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Public bug reported:

This bug needs to be raised against the arping and iputils-arping
packages.

arping and iputils-arping both provide a binary called arping.

It is impossible to install arping as iputils-arping conflicts with
arping (and many other packages do as well)

arping provides capabilities that iputils-arping does not including
pinging a mac address among other things.

As the 2 versions of arping use conflicting options and offer different
functionality they should not both have the same name.

Even worse ifupdown-extra depends on arping while the iputils-* requires iputils-arping.
This results in ifupdown-exta being uninstallable on a standard desktop system (network manager depends on iputils-arping)

There are a number of bugs around regarding this, some dating back over 10 years.
eg:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/arping/+bug/833546

Perhaps it is time for the two maintainers to merge their projects to solve this for ever, or at least rename one of them.
simple solution would be rename arping package and binary to arp-ping

This system is Mint17 but this issue exits on all debian based systems
and probably other distros as well.

** Affects: linuxmint
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: iputils (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Also affects: iputils (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1516913

Title:
  can't install arping due to conflicts with iputils-arping

Status in Linux Mint:
  New
Status in iputils package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This bug needs to be raised against the arping and iputils-arping
  packages.

  arping and iputils-arping both provide a binary called arping.

  It is impossible to install arping as iputils-arping conflicts with
  arping (and many other packages do as well)

  arping provides capabilities that iputils-arping does not including
  pinging a mac address among other things.

  As the 2 versions of arping use conflicting options and offer
  different functionality they should not both have the same name.

  Even worse ifupdown-extra depends on arping while the iputils-* requires iputils-arping.
  This results in ifupdown-exta being uninstallable on a standard desktop system (network manager depends on iputils-arping)

  There are a number of bugs around regarding this, some dating back over 10 years.
  eg:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/arping/+bug/833546

  Perhaps it is time for the two maintainers to merge their projects to solve this for ever, or at least rename one of them.
  simple solution would be rename arping package and binary to arp-ping

  This system is Mint17 but this issue exits on all debian based systems
  and probably other distros as well.

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