Bug#728287: RFA: iwatch

[Michael Prokop <mika@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal


iWatch is a realtime filesystem monitoring program. It's a simple
perl script to monitor changes in specific directories/files and
send email notification immediately. It reads the dir/file list from
xml config file and needs inotify support in kernel (Linux Kernel >=
2.6.13).

I don't have any real use for iwatch any longer and therefore don't
want to maintain the package anymore.

Please notice that I didn't manage to reach upstream for quite some while:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=581261#12

and the latest upstream release dates back to 2009.

So if someone decides to take over the package he/she should
consider taking it over as upstream as well.

iwatch is written in Perl (~500 lines) and we've the following open bugs:

• #581261 iwatch: not all listed event types to alert on actually do anything...eg modify, attrib etc
• #669291 iwatch: simply misses events
• #494397 iwatch: New subdirectories in recursive mode won't be recognized
• #608843 iwatch: Trouble with utf8 characters in filenames (+ 2 possible fixes)
• #611996 iwatch: Strange problem with network notify

If no one decides to take over iwatch by end of November I'll file a
request for removal.

regards,
-mika-