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:
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