Hi László, On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 11:51:00 +0200 László Böszörményi (GCS) <gcs@debian.org> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debian.org> > > * Package name : squashfs-tools-ng > Version : 0.4.2 > Upstream Author : David Oberhollenzer <goliath@infraroot.at> > * URL : https://github.com/AgentD/squashfs-tools-ng > * License : GPL-3+ > Programming Lang: C > Description : A new set of tools for working with SquashFS images > > Squashfs is a highly compressed read-only filesystem for Linux. It uses zlib > compression to compress both files, inodes and directories. Inodes in the > system are very small and all blocks are packed to minimise data overhead. > Block sizes greater than 4K are supported up to a maximum of 64K. > > Squashfs is intended for general read-only filesystem use, for archival use > (i.e. in cases where a .tar.gz file may be used), and in constrained block > device/memory systems (e.g. embedded systems) where low overhead is needed. > > As the name suggests, this is not the original user space tooling for > SquashFS. Here are some of the features that primarily distinguish this > package from the original: > - reproducible SquashFS images, i.e. deterministic packing without > any local time stamps, > - Linux `gen_init_cpio` like file listing for micro managing the > file system contents, permissions, and ownership without having to > replicate the file system (and especially permissions) locally, > - support for SELinux contexts file (see selabel_file(5)) to generate > SELinux labels. I see the package is still waiting in NEW. Where did you put the packaging VCS? I'd like to play around with it before ftp master manages to approve it. :) Thanks! cheers, josch
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