Alex de Oliveira Silva wrote:
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist I have intention of mantainer this package. * Package name : pftp Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name <somebody@example.org> * URL : http://www.pftp.de/ * License : GPL Description : Fast file transfer program This program transfers files from host to host on command line (within your telnet sessions). You may copy directories recursively, send/receive stdin/stdout, use your own filters, accept specified clients ... It is the fastest file transfer program on the net! ;^) -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-386 Locale: LANG=pt_BR, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR
IMO you should explain that pftp stands for Port-File-Transfer-Program (from webpage). Plus it would be useful to mwention that it can also stream audio/video (using UDP), set buffersize and bandwidth etc. Otherwise people might think it's just another version of ftp client and/or server.
Wait! it already is packaged: jojda:~> apt-cache show pftp Package: pftp Priority: optional Section: net Installed-Size: 228 Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org> Architecture: i386 Version: 1.1.6-0.2 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2-1) Filename: pool/main/p/pftp/pftp_1.1.6-0.2_i386.deb Size: 95180 MD5sum: 23a0a1ce30f8ceefc76aeada0e99199a Description: Fast file transfer program (no authentication!) This program transfers files from host to host on command line (within your telnet sessions). You may copy directories recursively, send/receive stdin/stdout, use your own filters, accept specified clients ... It is the fastest file transfer program on the net! ;^) ??? erik