[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Sponsor needed: add-on for VirtualBox (GNS3) needs to be uploaded into Debian

Alexey Eromenko al4321 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 25 08:37:47 UTC 2012


Hi All !

I have developed an add-on for VirtualBox, GNS3 - Graphical Network Simulator.

It allows people to create graphical network topologies of VirtualBox networks.
While VirtualBox itself allows to build small virtual networks via
"internal" networking mode,
GNS3 allows for large network topologies due to visual representation,
multi-host capability and Wireshark integration, which allows to
"sniff" packets from your virtual network.

Screenshot:
http://forum.gns3.net/topic3262.html
Upstream URL:
www.gns3.net

Now, an old version of GNS3 is already in Debian, but it's Debian
maintainer (Erik Wenzel) lost interest and have not updated the
package for over a year.
I'm the upstream developer of GNS3 and an active contributor of
upstream VirtualBox and a Debian user.

I need someone (Felix?) to do a review & non-maintainer upload (NMU)
to upgrade Debian's GNS3 0.7.4 --> v0.8.2 in the unstable repo.
Closes Bug #665979

I have uploaded my Debian packages (of GNS3 v0.8.2) here:
http://forum.gns3.net/topic4918.html

I would feel sad, if the upcoming Debian Wheezy / 7.0 would release
with the ancient GNS3 v0.7.x, instead of v0.8.x tree.
I promise to support GNS3 package and release major bug-fixes for it
for 3 years (to cover Debian-stable 7.0 release cycle).

Could you help me by reviewing & uploading GNS3 v0.8.2 into Debian-unstable ?

Thanks in advance,
-- 
-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"



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