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

[Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>]

On 04/06/14 13:14, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> 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" ?

sluice's only difference in that respect is that it has a warning option
to inform the user that it can't keep up with the specified data rate.

I guess we can close this bug and get pv updated, I don't think sluices
features merit uploading to Debian considering pv is superior.
> 
> Looks like we could use a more active maintainer for pv, though.
>