Re: dsniff is dead, long life to dsniff
Luciano Bello wrote:
> I'm the dsniff[1] maintainer, which is a pretty dead project[2]. Dug
> Song (the upstream) is putting his efforts in rewrite the project in
> python[3], which is quite limited compared to the previous one.
> The question is: should I package this new version as a replacement
> of the previous one, even one there is a big reduction in the feature
> list? Or, should I create a new package (let's say, python-dsniff) and
> RM dsniff?
Dug has gave me his permission and blessing to adopt dsniff (as in, the
upstream), keeping the original name.
It has been a while (= 2 years) since I was in that discussion -- I was
the Debian maintainer back then, had ported dsniff to libnet 1.1 from
1.0 and wanted all these debian/patches to be merged upstream. He
mentioned the Python version back then too FWIW.
I am lacking free time but if anyone else is up to it (Luciano?), I'd
happily collaborate to maintain the original project.
In any case, I think that keeping the same name for the Python version
would be a mistake.
Regards,
Faidon
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