Bug#224842: xsysinfo status

[Matt Taggart <taggart@debian.org>]

An RFA was posted for xsysinfo on 22 Dec 2003. Jeroen van Wolffelaar retitled 
it to ITA on 9 Nov 2004 while cleaning up a bunch of wnpp stuff, but it's 
unclear if he intended to adopt it or really meant RFA. Jeroen?

There are countless packages in debian that serve the same purpose as this 
package. Is there something unique about this one? Here's some data:

Resource usage:
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
taggart  21124  0.1  0.1   3524  1728 pts/14   S    16:45   0:00 xsysinfo

Library usage:
$ ldd `which xsysinfo`
        libXaw.so.7 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.7 (0xb7f7a000)
        libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0xb7f63000)
        libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0xb7f12000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xb7f09000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xb7ef2000)
        libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0xb7ee3000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb7ed5000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7e0d000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7cd8000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/libdl.so.2 (0xb7cd5000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fea000)

#rank name        inst  vote   old recent no-files (maintainer)
198   xsysinfo     193    38   145    10     0 (Hugo Haas)

(from http://popcon.debian.org/main/utils/by_inst )

A two bugs, one with an easy fix the other with a patch.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=xsysinfo&archive=no


So a few people are using it, it doesn't consume too much cpu/memory (less 
than an xterm), and it only uses X libs (and not gtk/qt etc.), and won't take 
too much effort to maintain. Comparing with packages of similar functionality 
might be interesting.

(FYI, I don't use this package, the bug just caught my eye in wnpp because 
it's old.)

HTH,

-- 
Matt Taggart
taggart@debian.org