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hipercontracer 2.2.6-1

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DescriptionHigh-Performance Connectivity Tracer (HiPerConTracer)

High-Performance Connectivity Tracer (HiPerConTracer) is a Ping/Traceroute measurement framework. HiPerConTracer refers to the core measurement tool, which performs regular Ping and Traceroute runs among sites. Key features include: - Multi-transport-protocol support (ICMP, UDP); - Multi-homing and parallelism support; - Handling of network load balancing; - Multi-platform support (currently Linux and FreeBSD); - High-precision (nanosecond) timing (Linux software and hardware timestamping); - Integrated library (shared/static) for third-party software (libhipercontracer); - Open-source C++ codebase focused on performance and portability with only a small number of dependencies.

Furthermore, the HiPerConTracer framework provides additional tools for obtaining, processing, collecting, storing, and retrieving measurement data: - Viewer Tool: Displays the contents of results files. - Results Tool: Merges and converts results files (e.g., to CSV format). - Sync Tool: Copies data from a measurement node (vantage point) to a remote collector server via RSync/SSH. - Reverse Tunnel Tool: Maintains a reverse SSH tunnel from a remote measurement node to a collector server. - Collector/Node Tools: Simplify the setup of nodes and collectors. - Trigger Tool: Triggers measurements in the reverse direction. - Importer Tool: Stores measurement data into SQL (MariaDB/MySQL, PostgreSQL) or NoSQL (MongoDB) databases. - Query Tool: Queries data from a database and stores it into a results file. - Database Shell: A simple command-line front-end for the underlying database backends. - Database Tools: Helper scripts to join database configurations into an existing DBeaver configuration. - UDP Echo Server: A UDP Echo (RFC 862) protocol endpoint.

This package contains the core HiPerConTracer measurement program.

MaintainerThomas Dreibholz <dreibh@simula.no>
Changed ByThomas Dreibholz <dreibh@simula.no>
Sponsorlocutusofborg@debian.org
Distributionunstable
Architectureany all
Closes#1137619
Popcon Installs28
Binary NEWYes (binary-only upload)
Trackerhttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/hipercontracer
Uploaded3 hours ago

New Package Report

.changes
Distributionunstable
DateThu, 02 Jul 2026 15:57:11 +0200
Sourcehipercontracer
Version2.2.6-1
Changed-ByThomas Dreibholz
Architecturesource all amd64
Changelog
hipercontracer (2.2.6-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release.
   * debian/control: Replaced dependency pdf2svg by mupdf-tools,
                     which is available in more distributions.
   * debian/control: Fixed conflict with upgrade from older libhpctio-dev.
   * debian/control: suggest instead of recommend mongodb-mongosh for
                     hipercontracer-dbshell, since it is provided by
                     the MongoDB PPA only (Closes: #1137619).
   * debian/tests: Fixed test scripts and their dependencies.
   * debian/control: Relaxed dependencies for R-examples.
   * debian/copyright: updated to include MetaInfo file.
   * debian/control: Only the examples of hipercontracer-importer need
     Python3 -> using "Recommends" instead of "Requires".
   * debian/control: Updated standards version to 4.7.4.
.dsc
Package-Listhipercontracer deb net optional arch=any
hipercontracer-all deb net optional arch=all
hipercontracer-collector deb net optional arch=all
hipercontracer-common deb net optional arch=all
hipercontracer-dbeaver-tools deb net optional arch=all
hipercontracer-dbshell deb net optional arch=all
hipercontracer-examples deb net optional arch=all
hipercontracer-importer deb net optional arch=any
hipercontracer-node deb net optional arch=all
hipercontracer-query deb net optional arch=any
hipercontracer-results deb net optional arch=any
hipercontracer-rtunnel deb net optional arch=all
hipercontracer-sync deb net optional arch=all
hipercontracer-trigger deb net optional arch=any
hipercontracer-udp-echo-server deb net optional arch=any
hipercontracer-viewer deb net optional arch=all
libhipercontracer-dev deb libdevel optional arch=any
libhipercontracer2 deb libs optional arch=any
libhpctdb-dev deb libdevel optional arch=any
libhpctdb2 deb libs optional arch=any
libhpctio-dev deb libdevel optional arch=any
libhpctio2 deb libs optional arch=any
libuniversalimporter-dev deb libdevel optional arch=any
libuniversalimporter2 deb libs optional arch=any
Sectionnet
Priorityoptional
Componentmain
debian/copyright
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: HiPerConTracer
Upstream-Contact: Thomas Dreibholz <dreibh@simula.no>
Source: https://www.nntb.no/~dreibh/hipercontracer

Files: *
Copyright: 2015-2026 Thomas Dreibholz
License: GPL-3+

License: GPL-3+
 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.
 .
 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.
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 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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 On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public
 License version 3 can be found in the file
 `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.

Files: *.metainfo.xml
Copyright: Copyright (C) 2026 Thomas Dreibholz <thomas.dreibholz@gmail.com>
License: CC0-1.0
 To the extent possible under law, the author(s) have dedicated all
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 .
 On Debian systems, the complete text of the CC0 Public Domain
 Dedication can be found in "/usr/share/common-licenses/CC0-1.0".

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