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Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
The current maintainer of socat, Thomas Seyrat <tomasera@debian.org>,
is apparently not active anymore. Therefore, I orphan this package now.
Maintaining a package requires time and skills. Please only adopt this
package if you will have enough time and attention to work on it.
If you want to be the new maintainer, please see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o for detailed
instructions how to adopt a package properly.
Some information about this package:
Package: socat
Binary: socat
Version: 1.6.0.1-1
Priority: extra
Section: net
Maintainer: Thomas Seyrat <tomasera@debian.org>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), libreadline5-dev, libssl-dev, libwrap0-dev
Architecture: any
Standards-Version: 3.7.3
Format: 1.0
Directory: pool/main/s/socat
Files:
56ebc0131e46f901a88ea780246c0229 601 socat_1.6.0.1-1.dsc
5a6a1d1e398d5c4d32fa6515baf477af 489105 socat_1.6.0.1.orig.tar.gz
edd4cfdb2d64baa9e106ea0c148c2dba 4077 socat_1.6.0.1-1.diff.gz
Package: socat
Priority: extra
Section: net
Installed-Size: 856
Maintainer: Thomas Seyrat <tomasera@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.6.0.1-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libreadline5 (>= 5.2), libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8f-5), libwrap0
Filename: pool/main/s/socat/socat_1.6.0.1-1_amd64.deb
Size: 319484
MD5sum: 5bedddcd9be76adffc925abd4ea75328
SHA1: 5928767da49935e1e1469d3506f197f6daf88605
SHA256: 89d9f078992a3ee05586630d88bd567a076cdc6ffbf684d0ed5afd78d239ebc9
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.
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, network::{client,server,vpn}, protocol::{ip,ipv6,ssl,tcp,telnet,udp}, role::program, scope::utility, use::proxying, use::transmission, works-with::network-traffic
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On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 21:32, Thomas Seyrat <tomasera@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> socat has been apparently mistakenly orphaned by Sandro. I intend to
> keep maintaining socat and update to the latest upstream in the next
> few days. socat hardly necessitates comaintainership...
it was done on Ryan's request after he waited more the 1 month after
pinging you on the BTS (on the bug reported on the mail I've sent).
> Sandro: would you please be kind enough to close this O: (now ITA)
doing with this email.
> bug? I'll answer your email from yesterday shortly (but obviously it
> takes more than one minute to do so):
>
> From: Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org>
> Subject: Information about your status in Debian
> Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:30:45 +0200
>
> From: Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org>
> Subject: Bug#523725: O: socat -- multipurpose relay for bidirectional data transfer
> Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:31:13 +0200
That's 2 different emails, the first as general information, the
second done after waiting for your reply on a bug on Debian BTS.
Regards,
--
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi
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