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Bug#728808: ITP: web100-userland -- The userland library and utilities for accessing and manipulating web100 TCP/IP instrumentation



On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 08:01 -0800, Dominic Hamon wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> wrote:
>         On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 10:43 -0800, Dominic Hamon wrote:
>         > Package: wnpp
>         > Severity: wishlist
>         > Owner: Dominic Hamon <dominic@google.com>
>         >
>         > * Package name    : web100-userland
>         >   Version         : 1.8.0
>         > * URL             : http://www.web100.org/
>         > * License         : LGPL
>         >   Programming Lang: C
>         >   Description     : The userland library and utilities for
>         accessing and manipulating web100 TCP/IP instrumentation
>         >
>         > The Web100 software implements a set of instruments in the
>         TCP/IP stack
>         > of an operating system.  The software is divided in two
>         pieces:
>         > - A patch to the Linux kernel, which collects the data,
>         and...
>         
>         Which isn't applied in Debian's kernel packages, making this a
>         bit
>         useless to Debian users in general.
>         
> 
> 
> It's a build dependency for another proposed package (ndt) which
> provides binary clients that are useful for Debian users wanting to
> test their network performance.
[...]

OK, then please make it clear in the binary package description what it
provides and anything it requires outside of package dependencies.  From
your explanation and the description at
<http://software.internet2.edu/ndt/>, it sounds like you're packaging
the client code while only the server side would need that patch.

Ben.


-- 
Ben Hutchings
Horngren's Observation:
                   Among economists, the real world is often a special case.

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