Bug#634262: arpwatch-ng status
Hi Afif,
On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 12:59:44AM -0800, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
> * The site for arpwatch-ng (<http://freequaos.host.sk/arpwatch>) is
> down. I was able to find a snapshot of it from earlier this year
> (3/2016) at archive.org:
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/20160321213852/http://freequaos.host.sk/arpwatch/
>
> * From the above link, I was able to download the latest release, 1.7.
in 2014 when I created the Debian git repo, I also created an
'upstream-ng' branch so I (or someone else - I never got to it) could
step through the development of arpwatch-ng in a little more detail and
decide if that's a better upstream to base the Debian package on. You
can still find that branch on github:
https://github.com/fschlich/Debian-arpwatch/commits/upstream-ng
Feel free to make use of any of it and push it to the git.d.o repo's
upstream branch if you see fit - I'm glad if it's of use to anybody!
> * <http://freshmeat.net/projects/arpwatch-ng> redirects to
> <http://freecode.com/projects/arpwatch-ng>, and freecode is frozen since
> 2014[1]. It looks like the only way to contact upstream is to see
> whether freecode site support can help.
>
> ...or fork the project again.
I think the arpwatch-ng upstream is as dead as the arpwatch one. There
are a few more repos and patches on github, but it doesn't look like
anybody has stepped up to pick up the pieces. Still I think arpwatch
continues to be useful, and if you find the time to look into the
arpwatch-ng work and find it to be sensible, please go forth and upload
a Debian package based on it!
Florian
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