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Package: wnpp
Owner: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Severity: wishlist
A long time ago, pchar was included in the Debian archive. It is a
package capable of reporting the bandwidth of each hop along a
traceroute on the Internet, and I have not been able to find a sensible
replacement. Once in a while I need it, and every time I rediscover
that it was removed from Debian (BTW #195589), see also
<URL: http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pchar.html >. I am tired of this
and want it back, so I intend to re-upload the package. Since its
retirement a new version is available, and I have updated the old source
to use this new upstream version.
* Package name : pchar
Version : 1.5
Upstream Author : Bruce A. Mah <bmah@acm.org>
* URL : http://www.kitchenlab.org/www/bmah/Software/pchar/
* License : BSD
Programming Lang: C++
Description : Characterize the bandwidth, latency and loss on network links
pchar is a reimplementation of the pathchar utility, written by Van
Jacobson. Both programs attempt to characterize the bandwidth,
latency, and loss of links along an end-to-end path through the
Internet. pchar works in both IPv4 and IPv6 networks.
Copyright:
This work was first produced by an employee of Sandia National
Laboratories under a contract with the U.S. Department of Energy.
Sandia National Laboratories dedicates whatever right, title or
interest it may have in this software to the public. Although no
license from Sandia is needed to copy and use this software, copying
and using the software might infringe the rights of others. This
software is provided as-is. SANDIA DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
Contains software developed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and which
is "Copyright (c) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 The Regents of the University
of California."
If anyone know of a better tool already in the Debian archive, please
let me know and save me the work of maintaining pchar. :)
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen
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Source: pchar
Source-Version: 1.5-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
pchar, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
pchar_1.5-1.diff.gz
to main/p/pchar/pchar_1.5-1.diff.gz
pchar_1.5-1.dsc
to main/p/pchar/pchar_1.5-1.dsc
pchar_1.5-1_i386.deb
to main/p/pchar/pchar_1.5-1_i386.deb
pchar_1.5.orig.tar.gz
to main/p/pchar/pchar_1.5.orig.tar.gz
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 660152@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@debian.org> (supplier of updated pchar package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)
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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:09:16 +0100
Source: pchar
Binary: pchar
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.5-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@debian.org>
Changed-By: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@debian.org>
Description:
pchar - Characterize the bandwidth, latency and loss on network links
Closes: 660152
Changes:
pchar (1.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Reupload to Debian based on old package found in
snapshot.debian.org (Closes: #660152).
* New upstream version.
* Update to use debhelper compat level 8 and rewrote build system to
use dh and quilt.
* Update watch file to point to new homepage.
* New patches:
- cxx-typo-getifinfo: Fix typo in C++ header.
- cxx-const-charp-warning: avoid warning from "string" casted to char*.
- destdir-install: Change install Makefile rule to use DESTDIR.
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