Bug#273598: RFP: bidilink -- a general purpose Unix tool for linking two bidirectional data streams

[RISKO Gergely <risko@risko.hu>]

Hello,

Debian already has a very similar package.  Probably it will be easier
for you to find a developer, who will maintain bidilink, if you write
a list about what the differences are, so we will know why bidilink is
better, than the already known and packaged socat.

For information, I send the description of socat at the end of the
letter.

Thanks,
Gergely

Package: socat
Description: multipurpose relay for bidirectional data transfer
 Socat (for SOcket CAT) establishes two bidirectional byte streams
 and transfers data between them. Data channels may be files, pipes,
 devices (terminal or modem, etc.), or sockets (Unix, IPv4, IPv6, raw,
 UDP, TCP, SSL). It provides forking, logging and tracing, different
 modes for interprocess communication and many more options.
 .
 It can be used, for example, as a TCP relay (one-shot or daemon),
 as an external socksifier, as a shell interface to Unix sockets,
 as an IPv6 relay, as a netcat and rinetd replacement, to redirect
 TCP-oriented programs to a serial line, or to establish a relatively
 secure environment (su and chroot) for running client or server shell
 scripts inside network connections.