Bug#426891: (no subject)
In the (duplicate) bug report #692774 Tollef and Jonas expressed
concerns about putting effort into packaging a program whose
funcionality is already in Debian via other tools.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=692774
In reply to that I repeat here what I already posted to #692774:
"trickle", "iprelay" and "shepard" are socket-specific traffic shaping
tools, whereas "throttle" is based on stdin and stdout. So it can be
used in other contexts, where other tools are not applicable.
But yes, you are both right, "cstream" (with the "-t" option) and "pv"
(with the "-L" option) do the trick, too. So "throttle" doesn't add a
really new functionality to Debian.
And no, we don't *absolutely* need it in Debian. But we *can* have it at
a low cost. The binary package will be tiny, the compilation happens
within seconds and packaging is simple. And as updates don't happen very
often and are not likely to change much of the tool's structure, package
maintenance in the long run will be cheap, too.
And "throttle" seems to be a more popular solution to common problems
than the other tools mentioned. When I was searching the web for the
solution of a problem, the answer in several places was "throttle". So I
finally compiled it from source. It would be nice to prevent other users
from having to do this, too.
I am aware of Debian's problem of having a huge amount of packages and
rather few maintainers. So I understand your concerns. I just think that
the (little) added value is worth the (very little) effort.
Kind regards,
Martin
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