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-...@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