Bug#830788: RFS: ifstat/1.1-9
On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 07:12:24PM +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 15:44:39 +0200 Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear mentors,
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ifstat"
>
> I have a question, is the ifstat package really still needed? It seems to be
> dead upstream (last release is from 2004).
>
> The iproute2 package (which is still maintained upstream) also has a ifstat
> binary, I've added that binary by mistake in the last upload I've made.
>
> So I see two solutions here, either I'm removing that binary from the
> iproute2 package (and we are back to the situation before my boggus upload)
> or we are removing the ifstat package from debian. Note iproute2 is linux
> only though.
>
> Any thoughts about this?
>
> Regards,
>
> Laurent Bigonville
How do they compare in functionality?
Ifstat upstream is alife and responsive. The command is just complete,
no new features have been added. So I guess we should keep ifstat, if
only for kfreebsd and hurd.
MfG
Goswin
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