Bug#330953: RFA: rocks -- Make network sockets reliable in a transparent way

[Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I request an adopter for the rocks package.

The package description is:
 Rocks protect sockets-based applications from network failures, particularly
 failures common to mobile computing, including:
 .
  - Link failures (e.g., unexpected modem disconnection);
  - IP address changes (e.g., laptop movement, DHCP lease expiry);
  - Extended periods of disconnection (e.g., laptop suspension).
 .
 Rock-enabled programs continue to run after any of these events; their broken
 connections recover automatically, without loss of in-flight data, when
 connectivity returns. Rocks work transparently with most applications,
 including SSH clients, X window applications, and network service daemons.

The current package does not work at all anymore (although it still
builds from source). Upstream told me more than a year ago they would
fix it, but nothing has happened since then. I also think there are not
many users of this package. If noone adopts it, I will ask for its
removal.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-rc6
Locale: LANG=nl_NL, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL (charmap=ISO-8859-1)