Bug#286847: Request for package

[Reto Schuettel <reto@schuettel.ch>]

Hi

This library would be mainly useful for a bandwidth monitor tool called
bmon[1]. I hoped I could package it by myself, but encountered a problem
which I wasn't able solve with my current skills. libnl is at the moment
heavily under development (0.x branch) and the upstream author doesn't
want to increase the soname after breaking the binary compatibility[2]
until the ABI gets stable (IMHO comprehensible). Usually one would
link the application statically against the library, but according to the author
that isn't possible either. 

Perhaps somebody with more experience is able to solve this problem...
Anyway, I'll change my ITP into an RFP and I'll re-evaluate the
situation in a few months.

Thanks!

Reto Schuettel

1] http://www.suug.ch/~tgr/bmon
2] http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html#BINARYCOMPAT