Bug#704510: ITP: nfacct -- command line tool to create/retrieve/delete netfilter accounting objects

[Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo.borrero.glez@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo.borrero.glez@gmail.com>

* Package name    : nfacct
  Version         : 1.0.1
  Upstream Author : Pablo Neira Ayuso - Netfilter <pablo@netfilter.org>
* URL             : http://netfilter.org/projects/nfacct/
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : command line tool to create/retrieve/delete netfilter accounting objects

Dear Debian comunity:

I would like to package and mantain nfacct.

Main Features

 * listing the objects of the nfacct table in plain text/XML
 * atomically get and reset objects of the nfacct table
 * adding new objects to the nfacct table
 * deleting objects from the nfacct table

nfacct requires libnetfilter_acct, libmnl and a kernel that features the nfnetlink_acct subsystem. For officially released kernels, this means 3.3.

This is interesting for the Debian server land, allowing us to combine with ulogd to achieve such things:
https://home.regit.org/2012/12/visualize-netfilter-accounting-in-graphite/