On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 08:01 -0800, Dominic Hamon wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> > wrote: > On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 10:43 -0800, Dominic Hamon wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Dominic Hamon <domi...@google.com> > > > > * 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 <http://software.internet2.edu/ndt/>, it sounds like you're packaging the client code while only the server side would need that patch. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case.
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