Get a release out the door with just the bare minimum of changes
compared to the iputils-
20211215 release.
We eschew "dates as versions" and start this at version 1.
This version was originally written by Alexey Kuznetsov and subsequently
maintained by several others. It is extracted from the iputils-20211215
-release into a standalone package with its own standalone build system,
-as the utility has been removed from newer versions of iputils.
+release into a distinct package with its own standalone build system, as
+the utility has been removed from newer versions of iputils.
# Prerequisites