Luciano Bello wrote: > I'm the dsniff[1] maintainer, which is a pretty dead project[2]. Dug > Song (the upstream) is putting his efforts in rewrite the project in > python[3], which is quite limited compared to the previous one. > The question is: should I package this new version as a replacement > of the previous one, even one there is a big reduction in the feature > list? Or, should I create a new package (let's say, python-dsniff) and > RM dsniff? Dug has gave me his permission and blessing to adopt dsniff (as in, the upstream), keeping the original name.
It has been a while (= 2 years) since I was in that discussion -- I was the Debian maintainer back then, had ported dsniff to libnet 1.1 from 1.0 and wanted all these debian/patches to be merged upstream. He mentioned the Python version back then too FWIW. I am lacking free time but if anyone else is up to it (Luciano?), I'd happily collaborate to maintain the original project. In any case, I think that keeping the same name for the Python version would be a mistake. Regards, Faidon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b96b17a.3050...@debian.org
