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Re: Interest in adopting libpcap, tcpdump, and ngrep?



Sorry, I misspoke, it was 'libcap2' we wanted to get the Go parts from,
not 'libpcap'.  Still, I think the security tools team is as good place
as any for these if you are looking for co-maintainers.

/Simon

Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:

> Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'll be looking for new maintainers for libpcap, tcpdump, and ngrep.
>> This group expressed interest in picking them up before, is it still
>> the case? They are in good shape, libpcap and tcpdump have the same
>> upstream which is very active; ngrep is dormant but very low
>> maintenance.
>
> Hi!  What a co-incidence, in the Go team we just discussed two packages
> that needs some Go components from 'libpcap' and it was suggested to not
> duplicate the libpcap source packaging in Debian, so I may be interested
> in helping on 'libpcap' with the primary goal of adding the Go libpcap
> part, but also look after it going forward.
>
> /Simon
>

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