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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Faidon Liambotis <paravoid@debian.org>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* Package name : bootterm
Version : 0.4+git2023013
Upstream Contact: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
* URL : https://github.com/wtarreau/bootterm
* License : Expat
Programming Lang: C
Description : simple terminal to ease connections with SBCs

Bootterm is a simple, reliable and powerful terminal designed to ease connection to ephemeral serial ports as found on various SBCs, and typically USB-based ones.
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Main features:
* automatic port detection (uses the most recently registered one by default)
* enumeration of available ports with detected drivers and descriptions
* wait for a specific, a new, or any port to appear (convenient with USB
ports)
* support for non-standard baud rates (e.g. 74880 bauds for ESP8266)
* can send a Break sequence and toggling RTS/DTR for various reset sequences,
even on startup
* fixed/timed captures to files (may be enabled at run time)
* optionally time-stamped captures (relative/absolute dates)
* reliable with proper error handling
* single binary without annoying dependencies, builds out of the box
* supports stdin/stdout to inject/download data
* configurable escape character and visible character ranges

Note that upstream has chosen /usr/bin/bt for the binary's name, but I'm
trying to persuade them to use /usr/bin/bootterm instead, in order to
avoid taking up a two-letter name in Debian's shared $PATH namespace,
for what is intended to be a binary for a niche audience. At minimum I'd
expect us to carry a Debian-specific patch.

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