The following reply was made to PR pkg/32398; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: OBATA Akio <obache@NetBSD.org>
To: simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz
Subject: Re: pkg/32398: Maintainer update: net/ipa 1.3.6 -> sysutils/ipa 2.0
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:06:40 +0900

 On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:59:15 +0300, Andrey Simonenko wrote:
 > On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 09:40:02AM +0000, OBATA Akio wrote:
 > 
 > >  You are using WITH_XXX variables, please use options framework instead in pkgsrc.
 > >  And already 2.0.1 out.
 > >  Would you please regenerate diff?
 > 
 > Done.
 
 Thanks.
 
 > >  > *	Please remove ipa from net category and move it to
 > >  > 	sysutils, ipa-2.0 does not have anything common with
 > >  > 	network.
 > >  
 > >  Is ipa-2.0 compatible with 1.x ?
 > 
 > I still ask to move net/ipa --> sysutils/ipa.
 
 But 
 
 >  ipa-2.x is a completely rewritten program.  It got some ideas from
 >  the previous 1.x version.
 > 
 >  
 >  In ipa-1.x support for firewalls and database was implemented directly
 >  in source files.  ipa-2.x uses modules (accounting, database and
 >  statistic modules, like plugins) and inside its source files there
 >  is not any support for firewalls and databases, it simply work with
 >  statistics (it can be anything) and solve some of accounting related
 >  tasks.
 > 
 >  
 >  Right now there is not any accounting module, which can be used on
 >  NetBSD.  Nevertheless, there is database module ipa_sdb, which can be
 >  used on any Unix-like system and there is ipactl utility, which can
 >  provide statistics.
 
 then, until ipa-2.x's modules is ready, we should keep ipa-1.x, aren't we?
 
 -- 
 OBATA Akio