Bug#394092: RFA: ethstatus -- Console-based ethernet statistics monitor
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I request an adopter for the ethstatus package.
The package description is:
Ethstatus is a console-based monitoring utility for displaying
statistical data of the ethernet interface on a quantity basis.
It is similar to iptraf but is meant to run as a permanent console
task to monitor the network load.
Upstream warning:
The former upstream developer - Gabriel Montenegro - has given up
development of the package so I accepted to become the intermediate
upstream contact in May 2003. I pimped the software a bit, wrote a
manpage, fixed the code and copyright. But I did not really intend to
stay the upstream developer for all times. After all my C knowledge is
not exactly guru like.
Bugs:
There is one minor bug filed against the package that I can't reproduce.
Similar packages:
IMHO iptraf, iftop or nload serve similar purposes. So I wonder if yet
another console network monitor is really needed. If nobody is
interested in the package we might as well remove it from Debian.
Popcon:
Popcon reports 282 installations for ethstatus.
Conclusion:
If you have some C knowledge and like to be both the upstream and the
Debian package maintainer then feel free to adopt the package. It's in
good shape IMHO.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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