Bug#335916: Removing netmon-applet

[Stephan Peijnik]

On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 00:43 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le vendredi 08 août 2008 à 15:43 -0300, Frank Lichtenheld a écrit :
> > Are you interested in adopting this package? Do you know potential adopters?
> > If so, please could you forward them this mail, Ccing the BTS and me?
> > 
> > If there is no action from anyone, I'll request the removal of this package
> > from Debian after a month.
> 
> I’d recommend to drop this package. We already have netspeed which is
> decently maintained upstream and in Debian, plus netstatus. I don’t
> think we need three applets doing almost exactly the same thing.

Looking at popcon netmon-applet is still being used by some people.
Also, both netspeed and netstatus are a bit 'heavier' on the UI code,
as netmon-applet uses text-only displaying.

It is true however that upstream seems to have dropped this package,
so on the other hand orphaning it might be a good idea.

Maybe there should be an alternative for this package though, providing
the same clean, text-only display method.

Having had a deeper look into the upstream activity dropping this
package seems like a good idea though. I am going to put this package
in orphaned status again.

Regards,

Stephan