On 04/06/14 13:14, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 04 Jun 2014, Colin Ian King wrote: >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com> >> >> * Package name : sluice >> Version : 0.01.00 >> Upstream Author : Colin King <colin.k...@canonical.com> >> * URL : http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/sluice >> * License : GPL-2+ >> Programming Lang: C >> Description : rate limiting data piping tool >> >> Sluice reads from standard input and write to standard >> output at a specified data rate. This can be useful >> for benchmarking and exercising I/O streaming at desired >> throughput rates. > > We already have the "pv" package, which does all of that and more, and > that's in the absolutely ancient version in Debian/Ubuntu. Does "sluice" > have relevant differences or advantages over "pv" ?
sluice's only difference in that respect is that it has a warning option to inform the user that it can't keep up with the specified data rate. I guess we can close this bug and get pv updated, I don't think sluices features merit uploading to Debian considering pv is superior. > > Looks like we could use a more active maintainer for pv, though. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/538f0fb2.9050...@canonical.com
