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iperf 2.2.2+dfsg2-2

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DescriptionInternet Protocol bandwidth measuring tool (transitional package)

Package to ease upgrading from older iperf package to the new iperf-client package.

This package can be purged at anytime once the iperf-client package has been installed.

MaintainerDaniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
Changed ByDaniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
Sponsormail@daniel-baumann.ch
Distributionsid
Architectureany all
VCSgit: https://forgejo.debian.net/linux/iperf (browse)
Popcon Installs9358
Binary NEWYes (new binary packages of a source already in sid)
Trackerhttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/iperf
Uploaded2 hours ago

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Changed-ByDaniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
Architecturesource amd64 all
Distributionsid
DateFri, 13 Nov 2026 12:01:17 +0100
Sourceiperf
Version2.2.2+dfsg2-2
Changelog◂
iperf (2.2.2+dfsg2-2) sid; urgency=medium
 .
   * Moving systemd integration to run an iperf server into new iperf-
     server package to highly lower complexity and improve admin
     experience.
   * Runing iperf server using a dynamic user rather than a static system
     user.
.dsc◂
Priorityextra
Componentmain
Package-Listiperf deb oldlibs extra arch=all
iperf-client deb net optional arch=any
iperf-server deb net optional arch=all
Sectionoldlibs
debian/copyright◂
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: iperf
Upstream-Contact: https://sourceforge.net/p/iperf2/tickets/
Source: https://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf2/files/
Files-Excluded:
 flows/test_rig.py
 include/service.h
 src/service.c

Files: *
Copyright:
 1999-2007 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
 2014-2021 The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
 2014-2025 Broadcom Corporation
 2014-2026 Robert J. McMahon
License: NCSA

Files: NEWS.md
Copyright:
 2014-2025 Broadcom Corporation
 2014-2026 Robert J. McMahon
License: GPL-3+

Files: aclocal.m4
Copyright: 1996-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License: FSFULLR

Files: configure
Copyright: 1992-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License: FSFUL

Files:
 Makefile.in
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License: FSFULLR

Files:
 config.guess
 config.sub
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License: GPL-3+ with Autoconf exception

Files:
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 depcomp
 missing
 test-driver
Copyright: 1999-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License: GPL-2+ with Autoconf exception

Files:
 compat/inet_ntop.c
 compat/inet_pton.c
Copyright: 1996-2001 Internet Software Consortium
License: ISC

Files:
 flows/discover_rig.py
 flows/ssh_nodes.py
Copyright: 2025 Umber Networks
License: BSD-3-clause

Files: include/gnu_getopt.h
Copyright: 1989-1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License: LGPL-2+

Files: install-sh
Copyright: 1994 X Consortium
License: X11

Files: m4/ax_pthread.m4
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 2008 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
 2011 Daniel Richard G. <skunk@iSKUNK.ORG>
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Files: src/dscp.c
Copyright:
 2000 Markus Friedl
 2005,2006 Damien Miller
 2022 Robert McMahon
License: BSD-2-clause

Files:
 src/gnu_getopt.c
 src/gnu_getopt_long.c
Copyright: 1987-1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License: LGPL-2+

Files: src/praque_cc.*
Copyright: Koen De Schepper <koen.de_schepper@nokia-bell-labs.com>
License: Apache-2.0

Files: debian/*
Copyright:
 1998-2014 Roberto Lumbreras <rover@debian.org>
 2026 Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
License: GPL-2+

License: Apache-2.0
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DFSG Assistant LLM REVIEW 2 blocker, 0 important, 4 minor

This is an LLM based review using a Debian Inference based workflow. It was not written by a member of the DFSG team and has not been checked by one. It is not a decision on the package: it may be wrong, and it may have missed things.

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DFSG NEW review for iperf version 2.2.2+dfsg2-2

Summary

  • Licensing is DFSG-compliant and debian/copyright is accurate: No
  • Packaging is of good quality: Yes
  • Issues: 2 blocker, 0 important, 4 minor
  • debian/watch: version 5
  • debian/copyright: machine-readable
  • Scan before the review: nothing found

Licensing

debian/copyright is DEP-5, thorough for most of the tree (NCSA, FSF unlimited-permission autotools files, ISC, BSD-2-clause, BSD-3-clause, LGPL-2+, X11, GPL-3+ for NEWS.md), and the tarball correctly lacks the Microsoft "All Rights Reserved" service.[ch]. All licences found are DFSG-free and mutually compatible, and no non-free wording appears anywhere. But the two groups of vendored L4S Prague files, which are Apache-2.0, are described as NCSA: the stanza for src/prague_cc.* is misspelled src/praque_cc.* and so matches nothing (and could never cover include/prague_cc.h), and contrib/udp_prague has no stanza at all. src/prague_cc.cpp is compiled into /usr/bin/iperf.

Packaging

Packaging is in good shape: debhelper 14 with dh, hardening=+all, a clean three-way binary split with a correct oldlibs dummy, quilt 3.0 with four DEP-3-headed patches, no maintainer scripts, and a systemd unit with DynamicUser. Standards-Version 4.7.4 matches this system's Policy 4.7.x. Only minor items remain: the installed HTML user manual links six screenshots that are not installed, a redundant dh-sequence-installsysusers build dependency, a deprecated Priority: extra on the transitional package, and the upstream test suite switched off with no autopkgtest to replace it.

Issues

blocker licensing 1. Files: src/praque_cc.* matches no file, so the Apache-2.0 Prague files are declared NCSA ◂
  • Files: debian/copyright:91-93, src/prague_cc.cpp, src/prague_cc.LICENSE, include/prague_cc.h
  • Basis: checked, in the package or with a reference tool
  • Evidence: Files: src/praque_cc.* / Copyright: Koen De Schepper <koen.de_schepper@nokia-bell-labs.com> / License: Apache-2.0, while the tree has src/prague_cc.cpp, src/prague_cc.LICENSE and include/prague_cc.h and no src/praque_cc.*; include/iperf_prague.hpp:12 states https://github.com/L4STeam/udp_prague (Apache-2.0, see src/prague_cc.LICENSE)
  • Problem: src/prague_cc.cpp carries no licence header of its own; its licence is the Apache-2.0 text in src/prague_cc.LICENSE. Because the pattern in the stanza is misspelled, and because an src/-anchored pattern cannot match include/prague_cc.h in any case, these files fall through to the Files: * stanza (debian/copyright:9-15) and are declared NCSA. src/prague_cc.cpp is compiled into /usr/bin/iperf (it is in iperf_SOURCES in src/Makefile.am), so debian/copyright states the wrong licence for code shipped in a binary package.
  • Fix: Replace the stanza with one naming the Apache-2.0 files explicitly, e.g. Files: src/prague_cc.cpp src/prague_cc.LICENSE include/prague_cc.h with License: Apache-2.0. Do not widen it to src/prague_cc.*: src/prague_cc.UPSTREAM is iperf's own note and belongs under Files: *.
blocker licensing 2. contrib/udp_prague is Apache-2.0 but falls under Files: * and is declared NCSA ◂
  • Files: debian/copyright:9-15, contrib/udp_prague/LICENSE, contrib/udp_prague/udp_prague_sender.cpp, contrib/udp_prague/udpsocket.cpp
  • Basis: checked, in the package or with a reference tool
  • Evidence: contrib/udp_prague/LICENSE is Apache License / Version 2.0, January 2004; contrib/udp_prague/UPSTREAM pins https://github.com/L4STeam/udp_prague and Makefile.am calls these files vendored unmodified. debian/copyright has no stanza for contrib/, so Files: * with License: NCSA covers them.
  • Problem: The reference sender/receiver apps vendored in contrib/udp_prague are Apache-2.0, and debian/copyright describes them as NCSA. That is an inaccurate debian/copyright for files distributed in the source package, whether or not they are installed.
  • Fix: Add a stanza for the vendored Apache-2.0 files (e.g. Files: contrib/udp_prague/* minus UPSTREAM, whose author is iperf itself) with License: Apache-2.0 and the holder the upstream project names.
minor packaging 3. Installed iperf2-user-manual.html links six screenshots that iperf-client does not install ◂
  • Files: debian/iperf-client.install:2-3, doc/iperf2-user-manual.html:957-985
  • Basis: checked, in the package or with a reference tool
  • Evidence: iperf-client.install installs only doc/*.html and doc/dast.gif into usr/share/doc/iperf-client/html, but iperf2-user-manual.html has <img src="bounceback_preview.png">, <a class="screenshot-link" href="bounceback_full.png">, and likewise tcp_preview.png, tcp_full.png, udp_l4s_preview.png, udp_l4s_full.png
  • Problem: The shipped copy of the user manual has six broken images and dead links, which is what a user sees when opening /usr/share/doc/iperf-client/html/iperf2-user-manual.html.
  • Fix: Add doc/*.png usr/share/doc/iperf-client/html to debian/iperf-client.install, or strip the screenshot links from the installed copy.
minor packaging 4. Build-Depends on dh-sequence-installsysusers is unnecessary at compat 14 and there is no sysusers file ◂
  • Files: debian/control:7, debian/iperf-server.service
  • Basis: checked, in the package or with a reference tool
  • Evidence: Build-Depends dh-sequence-installsysusers,; debhelper's own checklist says that from v14 (which applies here) "The tool dh_installsysusers is now included in the default sequence"; debian/ contains no *.sysusers file, and the unit sets DynamicUser=yes
  • Problem: The sequence add-on does nothing beyond inserting a command dh already runs, so the package carries a build dependency it does not need.
  • Fix: Remove dh-sequence-installsysusers from Build-Depends.
minor packaging 5. The transitional iperf package sets Priority: extra, which is deprecated ◂
  • Files: debian/control:15
  • Basis: checked, in the package or with a reference tool
  • Evidence: Package: iperf / Section: oldlibs / Priority: extra; Policy 2.5: "This priority is deprecated. Use the "optional" priority instead."
  • Problem: Policy 2.5 deprecates extra, and since dpkg 1.22.13 the priority of a binary package defaults to optional, so the field is both obsolete and unnecessary.
  • Fix: Delete the Priority field from the iperf stanza (or set it to optional).
minor packaging 6. The 49-test upstream suite is switched off unconditionally and nothing replaces it ◂
  • Files: debian/rules:12-13, Makefile.am:15-40
  • Basis: checked, in the package or with a reference tool
  • Evidence: override_dh_auto_test: / # disabled, while Makefile.am sets TESTS = t/t1_tcp.sh ... t/t49_tos_names.sh for make check, and debian/ has no tests/ directory
  • Problem: No test of this package runs anywhere: not at build time, and there is no autopkgtest, so a sponsor has no automated evidence for the CLI, the L4S/Prague paths or the server mode; the rules file gives no reason for disabling the suite.
  • Fix: Either explain the disabling in debian/rules, or add a debian/tests/control that runs the existing t/ harness under make check in autopkgtest.
Verified ◂
  • The pre-scan listed no files to account for: its holder check reports that every holder found in the 214 files is named in debian/copyright, and I found no file notice naming a holder absent from debian/copyright.
  • Read all of debian/ in full: changelog, control, copyright, rules, iperf-client.install, iperf-server.service, ufw/iperf, lrc.config, source/format, and all four patches with series.
  • Licence evidence collected with tree-wide greps for Copyright/(C)/©/SPDX and for licence wording, plus the headers of files in src/, include/, compat/, flows/, t/, tools/, doc/, man/, m4/, contrib/ and the top level, and full reads of LICENSE, COPYING, AUTHORS, doc/ui_license.html, src/prague_cc.LICENSE and contrib/udp_prague/LICENSE.
  • Licences found and their debian/copyright stanzas: NCSA (most of the tree, holders University of Illinois, LBNL Regents, Broadcom, McMahon - all four listed), BSD-3-clause (flows/discover_rig.py, flows/ssh_nodes.py, 2025 Umber Networks), BSD-2-clause (src/dscp.c, Friedl/Miller/McMahon), ISC (compat/inet_ntop.c, compat/inet_pton.c), LGPL-2+ (include/gnu_getopt.h, src/gnu_getopt.c, src/gnu_getopt_long.c), X11 (install-sh), FSF unlimited-permission for aclocal.m4, Makefile.in files, configure, config.guess, config.sub, compile, depcomp, missing, test-driver, GPL-3+ for NEWS.md. All are DFSG-free and compatible with each other.
  • No non-free terms: grep for non-commercial, "Good, not Evil", Commons Clause, research-only, evaluation-only, no-derivative and "may not be sold/distributed" found nothing. The only "All Rights Reserved" lines are in NCSA/BSD grant texts that follow with permission.
  • Files-Excluded is honest: flows/test_rig.py, include/service.h and src/service.c are absent from the tree, and debian/patches/debian/0003-delete-service.patch removes their only build references from src/Makefile.am and src/Makefile.in. The Microsoft "All Rights Reserved" service.[ch] is therefore not in the package.
  • Images recorded but not opened: doc/bounceback_full.png, doc/bounceback_preview.png, doc/tcp_full.png, doc/tcp_preview.png, doc/udp_l4s_full.png, doc/udp_l4s_preview.png, doc/dast.gif (NLANR DAST logo). All are upstream documentation screenshots next to the HTML they illustrate, covered by Files: * and listed in doc/Makefile.am EXTRA_DIST.
  • Generated documentation has its source: man/iperf-manpage.html and doc/iperf2-user-manual.html are conversions of man/iperf.1, which is in the package; config.h.in is generated from configure.ac, which is present.
  • debian/lrc.config is a configuration file for the lrc licence checker (ignore directives with reasons); it is maintainer tooling, not installed by any .install file, and its one stale entry (lows/udp800.py, sic) affects nothing in the package.
  • Packaging checks: debhelper-compat 14 with a plain dh $@ sequencer and hardening=+all; debian/rules overrides only dh_auto_configure (--enable-fastsampling, which configure.ac:56 defines) and dh_auto_test; no <!nocheck> build dependencies; no maintainer scripts, no debian/*.sysusers, no debian/tests, no debian/upstream/metadata, no gbp.conf.
  • Binary split checked against the install files and the unit: iperf-client gets /usr/bin/iperf, the man page, the html docs and the ufw profile; iperf-server gets only debian/iperf-server.service (DynamicUser=yes); the iperf dummy is Section: oldlibs, Architecture: all, depends on iperf-client, and iperf-client carries Breaks/Replaces on iperf, which covers the /usr/bin/iperf move.
  • Standards-Version 4.7.4, which matches the 4.7.x Policy on this system, so current enough; changelog is for sid with the matching 2.2.2+dfsg2-2 version and no stale bug closures.
  • Sample limitation: I read the headers and licence blocks of representative files in every directory rather than every one of the 214 files end to end; the tree-wide copyright grep covers all of them.
  • uscan found the packaged version as the newest upstream release (upstream 2.2.2, packaged 2.2.2+dfsg2).
  • Every pointer of debian/copyright to /usr/share/common-licenses names a file that is there (Apache-2.0, GPL-2, GPL-3, LGPL-2).
Not confirmed ◂
  • Whether upgrading from 2.2.2+dfsg2-1 leaves a dangling enablement symlink: the unit in this tree is installed as /usr/lib/systemd/system/iperf-server.service in a new package, and what the previous upload shipped (file name and owning package) cannot be seen from this tree, so I could not confirm whether a migration (Breaks/Replaces or a maintscript) is needed.
  • Whether the unit's ExecStart=/usr/bin/iperf --server --interval 0 --ipv6_domain fails and restart-loops on a host with IPv6 disabled; that depends on iperf's runtime behaviour, which I cannot run here.
  • Whether the disabled upstream test suite would pass in a clean chroot; not runnable in this read-only review.
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