Bug#348043: ITP: upslug2 -- command line program to upgrade the firmware of LinkSys NSLU2

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>

* Package name    : upslug2
  Version         : 2-11
  Upstream Author : John Bowler <jbowler@acm.org>
* URL             : http://sourceforge.net/projects/nslu
* License         : custom, see below
  Description     : command line program to upgrade the firmware of LinkSys NSLU2

The following description is taken from upstream's README files.
The Debian package will have one slightly more suited for the
Debian control information.

upslug2 is a command line program intended to allow the upgrade of a
LinkSys NSLU2 firmware to new or different versions.  Unlike upslug
and the LinkSys (Sercomm) upgrade utilities upslug2 will synthesise a
complete 'image' from a kernel and a root file system, as such it
duplicates part of the functionality of 'slugimage'.

upslug2 also optimises the upload to avoid transmitted parts of the
image which need not be written or are 'blank' (set to the erased
flash value of all 1's).

upslug2 is functionally similar to upslug, however it is not derived
from upslug.  It is a rewrite ab initio based on the following
information:


License:

Copyright (C) 2005 John Bowler <jbowler@acm.org>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files
(the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction,
including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify,
merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the
Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished
to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/