Hi! netstat-nat (in the form of #270932, untouched since 2004) popped up in today's bug of the day (http://blends.debian.net/botd/botd.html). This bug is cited as the cause of removal from testing.
I can absolutely reproduce the FTBFS, but packages don't get to this state by accident. The BOTD helpfully notes an uscan error. And indeed, www.tweegy.nl/projects/netstat-nat/ redirects to www.tweegy.nl:5223/projects/netstat-nat/ which is a synology 404, and http://www.tweegy.nl:5223/ is a synology login. The internet archive has captured some old versions of this https://web.archive.org/web/20180104143740/http://www.tweegy.nl/projects/netstat-nat/ signed as D.Wijsman da...@tweegy.nl. I haven't found anything code-shaped under that name on today's web. There's also a CVS tree linked, but all captures are 404s. At least some tarballs are live. The listed maintainer is Gustavo Paniagua dos Santos <paniagua.gust...@gmail.com> and DDPO https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=paniagua.gustavo%40gmail.com shows that this is his only package. lists.d.o (if im using the search right, not a given) https://lists.debian.org/cgi-bin/search?P=paniagua.gustavo%40gmail.com&DEFAULTOP=and&SORT=0&HITSPERPAGE=10&xFILTERS=.%7E%7E shows his only activity to be 2014-05 #748772: ITP: snetz 2014-06 #553187: O: netstat-nat which he turned into an ITA and that's it. snetz saw one version (with him listed as Maintainer:) and was removed from sid in 2020 (#963096). netstat-nat saw one version as well ‒ 1.4.10-3 ‒ with him listed as Maintainer:. Except for the ITP and ITA, I cannot see any debbugs activity in this package, or any list activity in general, and I can't see anything code-shaped (that isn't derived from him being listed as the maintainer here) under this name on the modern web. I would happily call him MIA (because DOA would be untoward). This feels like a program I badly reinvent de novo every six weeks, and it's trivial to renovate it to bring it up to a modern standard (much like I did with urlview and archivemount) to not have to do that. This would provide /an/ upstream, and I can take it over in debian as well. Maybe even test and fix #270932 because a 2004 bug is embarrassing. Best,
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