Bug#524988: debmirror: man page enhancement/bandwidth limit

[Moritz Molle <mmolle@gmx.net>]

Package: debmirror
Version: 20070123
Severity: wishlist


Debmirror works for me (mirroring lenny and etch and squeeze), but the 
manpage looks kinda outdated, and at first i got the impression, this 
could be software soon to be deprecated.

I think, the newest debian-version mentioned in the manpage should not 
be sarge, but squeeze or so, and what I really missed was a section 
about return codes. (So I could run debmirror from a script).

And another enhancement, which i would like to see in the program is a 
means to limit the bandwidth which it uses while mirroring.

Thanks!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages debmirror depends on:
ii  bzip2                         1.0.5-1    high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libcompress-zlib-perl         2.015-1    Perl module for creation and manip
ii  libdigest-sha1-perl           2.11-2+b1  NIST SHA-1 message digest algorith
ii  liblockfile-simple-perl       0.207-1    Simple advisory file locking
ii  libwww-perl                   5.825-1    WWW client/server library for Perl
ii  perl [libdigest-md5-perl]     5.10.0-19  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-modules [libnet-perl]    5.10.0-19  Core Perl modules
ii  rsync                         3.0.5-1    fast remote file copy program (lik

Versions of packages debmirror recommends:
ii  ed                            0.7-3      The classic unix line editor
ii  gnupg                         1.4.9-4    GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii  patch                         2.5.9-5    Apply a diff file to an original

debmirror suggests no packages.

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