amqp-tools port parameter unusable

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and try to make Ubuntu better!

I was able to reproduce what you mentioned even in Groovy. Checking the code, the warning about specifying the port number with --server seems something desired by upstream since it is not IPv6 friendly [1]. I did not go through details of implementation but it might be an upstream bug, when the ':<port>' is passed the host is correctly parsed otherwise not and it fallback to localhost.

Interestingly, if you check the manpages those options are not listed there, and it is not a bug in the Ubuntu package but the upstream doc seems outdated [2].

This sounds like an upstream bug to me. The best route to getting it fixed
in Ubuntu in this case would be to file an bug with the upstream project. Would you like to do that?

If you do end up filing an upstream bug, please link to it from here. Thanks!

[1] https://github.com/alanxz/rabbitmq-c/blob/master/tools/common.c#L223
[2] https://github.com/alanxz/rabbitmq-c/tree/master/tools/doc

Hi, you are right, it is upstream bug, thanks for pointing me to the right direction. I will fill in bug report there and link to this.

tinodj did report this upstream a while back. The issue got fixed by the following commits, which should be available from librabbitmq 0.11.0:

https://github.com/alanxz/rabbitmq-c/commit/637f0275ffcc2bfb58c94f0bf6e290aa40c1695a
https://github.com/alanxz/rabbitmq-c/commit/4d03c849868231dc217785c6f0e78eab9cd79fd5

Indeed, thank you for remembering this. It seems I promised to post a link to a bug-report with them, but I didn't.

Here it is anyway:
https://github.com/alanxz/rabbitmq-c/issues/621

so for sure, this can be closed.

Thanks @tinodj for working with upstream to get this fixed. Even if fixed upstream this is still a bug in Ubuntu, ideally to be fixed by Debian packaging version 0.11.0, and Ubuntu syncing it. Hopefully this will happen in time for Jammy. Otherwise this is a 1-line patch on a plate scenario:

https://github.com/alanxz/rabbitmq-c/pull/623/commits/54d00bee5cc4603dc96af5f86c899210689dfeeb

I'm updating the bug tasks to reflect this.

FWIW, Jess and I are working on this. \o/

This bug was fixed in the package librabbitmq - 0.10.0-1ubuntu2

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librabbitmq (0.10.0-1ubuntu2) jammy; urgency=medium

  * d/p/server-flag-deprecation.patch:
    add patch to fix issue parsing hostname in --server flag.
    (LP: #1888313)

 -- Jess Jang <email address hidden> Thu, 03 Feb 2022 14:30:36 -0600

Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri) has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that specific release.

Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) has reached End of Standard Support, so this bug will not be fixed for that specific release.