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Bug#966229: ITP: protocol -- a simple command line tool for displaying standard network protocol headers

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On Sat, 2020-07-25 at 08:36 +0530, Vasudev Kamath wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Vasudev Kamath <vasudev@debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : protocol

I think this name is too generic.

>   Version         : 0.1
>   Upstream Author : Luis MartinGarcia <luis.mgarc@gmail.com>
> * URL             : http://www.luismg.com/protocol/
> * License         : GPL-3.0
>   Programming Lang: Python
>   Description     : a simple command line tool for displaying standard network protocol headers
> 
>  Protocol is a simple command-line tool that serves two purposes:
>    - Provide a simple way for engineers to have a look at standard network protocol headers, directly
>      from the command-line, without having to google for the relevant RFC or for ugly header image
>      diagrams.
>    - Provide a way for researchers and engineers to quickly generate ASCII RFC-like header diagrams for
>      their own custom protocols.

It sounds quite useful though.

Ben.

>  - why is this package useful/relevant?
>    It is useful for observing headers of Standard Network protocol without going to need to go through
>    wiki page for protocol or from RFC documents.
>    It is also helpful to generate RFC like ASCII header diagram for custom protocol.
> 
>  - how do you plan to maintain it?
>    For now myself, might consider later to move it to Python application team.
> 
-- 
Ben Hutchings
Theory and practice are closer in theory than in practice - John Levine

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Bug#966229: ITP: protocol -- a simple command line tool for displaying standard network protocol headers Vasudev Kamath <vasudev@debian.org> - 2020-07-25 05:10 +0200
  Bug#966229: ITP: protocol -- a simple command line tool for displaying standard network protocol headers Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2020-07-26 01:30 +0200
    Bug#966229: ITP: protocol -- a simple command line tool for displaying standard network protocol headers Vasudev Kamath <vasudev@debian.org> - 2020-07-27 08:10 +0200

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