Package: sip-tester
Version: 1:3.7.8-1
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
I'm one of the upstream SIPp maintainers. Please consider renaming the
sip-tester binary package to sipp, the name upstream and most other
distributions use.
sip-tester was a reasonable choice in 2005, when "sipp" was taken by
SIPP, the SImple Polygon Processor 3D library. That package was removed
from unstable on 2007-09-15 (RoQA; no users, #377925). Its last release
was etch, and Ubuntu last shipped it in gutsy. The name has been free
for almost 20 years.
Reasons to rename:
* The package already ships /usr/bin/sipp and sipp.1; only the
package name differs, so "apt install sipp" fails for most people.
* Fedora, Alpine, Arch (AUR), Gentoo, nixpkgs and Homebrew all call it
sipp. Upstream docs and CI examples then need a Debian-specific
exception.
* Old sipp was 3.1-11, below any current version, so there is no
version clash.
A possible transition (the source package can stay sip-tester):
* New binary package sipp with
Breaks: sip-tester (<< 1:3.7.8-2~)
Replaces: sip-tester (<< 1:3.7.8-2~)
* sip-tester becomes a transitional dummy package (Section: oldlibs)
that depends on sipp, and is dropped after forky.
Two related things you might fix while you're at it:
* Homepage: SIPp moved to https://github.com/SIPp/sipp;
sipp.sourceforge.net is no longer maintained.
* The description says it is built "without openssl", so
authentication is unsupported. But debian/rules configures with
-DUSE_SSL=1, so TLS and authentication are in fact available.
If it helps, I'm happy to send a merge request on Salsa.
Thanks,
Orgad Shaneh
