Bug#442461: RFP: freedt -- a reimplementation of Dan Bernstein's daemontools under the GNU GPL

[Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : freedt
  Version         : 0.21
  Upstream Author : Adam Sampson
* URL             : http://offog.org/code/freedt.html
* License         : GPL
  Description     : a reimplementation of Dan Bernstein's daemontools under the GNU GPL

It currently includes feature-equivalent replacements for argv0, envdir,
envuidgid, setlock, setuidgid, softlimit, supervise, svc, svok, svscan,
svstat and recordio. It also includes dumblog (a simple multilog
replacement), mkservice (a script for automatically creating service
directories), anonidentd (an anonymising identd implementation) and
ratelimit (a bandwidth-limiting filter along the lines of recordio). All
the tools include usage messages; for instance, do "ratelimit -h" for a
brief rundown of the options.

Please note that this package is not a drop-in replacement for
daemontools; the internal state files in service directories are
different, and the error messages (and a few of the options) aren't
quite the same. You can replace daemontools with freedt, but you'll need
to remove the state files by hand when doing so (and check carefully
that everything works afterwards!).