Bug#286847: ITP: libnl -- library for applications dealing with netlink socket

[Reto Schuettel <reto@schuettel.ch>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist


* Package name    : libnl
  Version         : 0.4.2
  Upstream Author : Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
* URL             : http://www.suug.ch/~tgr/libnl/
* License         : LGPL
  Description     : library for applications dealing with netlink socket

libnl is a library for applications dealing with netlink socket. It
provides an easy to use interface for raw netlink message but also
netlink family specific APIs.

* Sending/Receiving of netlink messages with support for sequence
  numbers and callbacks to adjust behaviour of parser and help
  debugging.
* Generic cache interface holding items for all netlink users.
* Message parsers for all supported netlink users that store into caches
* Static structs exporting netlink user data to the application
* Dumping routines for all supported netlink users to allow easy dumping
  of whole caches or single entries
* Character string from/to type number transformation routines
* Netlink user specific APIs (i.e. change link attributes,
  add/delete/change neighbour, etc.)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_CH (charmap=ISO-8859-1)