Bug#750546: ITP: sluice -- rate limiting data piping tool

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Wed, 04 Jun 2014, Colin Ian King wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> 
> * Package name    : sluice
>   Version         : 0.01.00
>   Upstream Author : Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> * URL             : http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/sluice
> * License         : GPL-2+
>   Programming Lang: C
>   Description     : rate limiting data piping tool
> 
> Sluice reads from standard input and write to standard
> output at a specified data rate.  This can be useful
> for benchmarking and exercising I/O streaming at desired
> throughput rates.

We already have the "pv" package, which does all of that and more, and
that's in the absolutely ancient version in Debian/Ubuntu.  Does "sluice"
have relevant differences or advantages over "pv" ?

Looks like we could use a more active maintainer for pv, though.

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  Henrique Holschuh