Bug#728808: ITP: web100-userland -- The userland library and utilities for accessing and manipulating web100 TCP/IP instrumentation

2013-11-07 Thread Ben Hutchings 
On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 08:01 -0800, Dominic Hamon wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Ben Hutchings 
> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 10:43 -0800, Dominic Hamon wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Dominic Hamon 
> >
> > * Package name: web100-userland
> >   Version : 1.8.0
> > * URL : http://www.web100.org/
> > * License : LGPL
> >   Programming Lang: C
> >   Description : The userland library and utilities for
> accessing and manipulating web100 TCP/IP instrumentation
> >
> > The Web100 software implements a set of instruments in the
> TCP/IP stack
> > of an operating system.  The software is divided in two
> pieces:
> > - A patch to the Linux kernel, which collects the data,
> and...
> 
> Which isn't applied in Debian's kernel packages, making this a
> bit
> useless to Debian users in general.
> 
> 
> 
> It's a build dependency for another proposed package (ndt) which
> provides binary clients that are useful for Debian users wanting to
> test their network performance.
[...]

OK, then please make it clear in the binary package description what it
provides and anything it requires outside of package dependencies.  From
your explanation and the description at
, it sounds like you're packaging
the client code while only the server side would need that patch.

Ben.


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Ben Hutchings
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Bug#728808: ITP: web100-userland -- The userland library and utilities for accessing and manipulating web100 TCP/IP instrumentation

2013-11-05 Thread Ben Hutchings 
On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 10:43 -0800, Dominic Hamon wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Dominic Hamon 
> 
> * Package name: web100-userland
>   Version : 1.8.0
> * URL : http://www.web100.org/
> * License : LGPL
>   Programming Lang: C
>   Description : The userland library and utilities for accessing and 
> manipulating web100 TCP/IP instrumentation
> 
> The Web100 software implements a set of instruments in the TCP/IP stack
> of an operating system.  The software is divided in two pieces:
> - A patch to the Linux kernel, which collects the data, and...

Which isn't applied in Debian's kernel packages, making this a bit
useless to Debian users in general.

I'm guessing this could be replaced using kprobes or some higher-level
tracing framework.

> - A library and a set of utilities (the userland), for accessing and
>   manipulating these instruments.
> This package provides both the library and utilities.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Horngren's Observation:
   Among economists, the real world is often a special case.


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