Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I'd like to pass shaper on to a new maintainer. I'm not as interested in
it now as I once was, and it needs some TLC applied to it: shapecfg and
cbqinit should arguably be separate patches, and somebody needs to think
about merging the cosmetic patches upstream.
I also get the very occasional (once every couple of months) traffic
shaping support request by e-mail, which I don't often have time to
respond to. It'd be nice if somebody did.
* #150656: shapecfg and cbqinit should be in separated packages.
Package: shaper; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: "Marcus Felipe Pereira
(Akim)" <marcus@task.net.br>; 47 days old.
The package description is:
The traffic shaper for Linux configures and adjusts traffic shaper
bandwidth limiters. Traffic shaping means setting parameters or limits to
which network traffic should conform - that is, setting limitations on
bandwidth consumption. See README.shaper for more details.
.
An init script which sets up traffic shaping using class-based queueing is
also provided. This can be used to build smart bandwidth shapers which know
about TCP/IP. See README.cbq for more details.
.
The kernel support needed to use either of these facilities is described in
README.Debian.
I'll continue to maintain shaper until somebody offers to take over.
Please mail me before adopting this package.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]