Hi Justin, Sorry for getting back to you so late.
Yes, this package is doomed, I've just requested removal: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=708220 Once it's through, I'll close this bug too. Thank you for your help and for noticing me about the kernel change! Gergely On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:46:15 +0000, Justin B Rye <j...@edlug.org.uk> writes: > Package: shaperd > Version: 0.2.1-5.2 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > The package description for shaperd clearly hasn't been updated for > about a decade, and needs some attention. > > # Description: A user-mode traffic shaper for tcp-ip networks > > DevRef-noncompliant initial capitalised indefinite article. > > The protocol name is also mis-capitalised, but this reference to > "TCP/IP networks" seems misplaced anyway: the point isn't that this is > a traffic shaper for the Internet (as opposed to NetBIOS), it's that > it's a TCP/IP traffic shaper. > > # Shaperd is a user-mode program that can shape traffic passing through > # a Linux box. As it runs as a normal daemon, some kind of packet-forwarding > > We don't need to belabour the fact that the daemon runs in userspace > quite so heavily. Are there any Debian packages that contain > kernelspace daemons? > > # mechanism is needed. This can be done with the BSD divert sockets patch > # for Linux 2.2, or with netfilter's built-in libipq under Linux 2.4. > > This is the part that caught my eye. Debian hasn't officially > supported anything as ancient as Linux 2.4 (let alone 2.2!) for > several stable releases. Meanwhile, libipq has been deprecated for > almost as long and won't work with anything newer than 3.4. So I > suspect this package is probably doomed, but meanwhile here's a > suggested patch for the package description: > > | Description: user-mode TCP/IP traffic shaper > | Shaperd is a user-mode daemon that can shape network traffic passing > | through a Linux box. It depends on netfilter's ip_queue module for packet > | forwarding. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
