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Intent to package unsymlink



This is a tool that I wrote to help with archive maintenance.  I've shown
the manpage here before; I finally got around to implementing it.

I'm releasing it under the GPL.

 Package: unsymlink
 Version: 1.0.3
 Section: utils
 Priority: optional
 Architecture: i386
 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1)
 Installed-Size: 28
 Maintainer: Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>
 Description: convert symbolic links to hard links or copies
  unsymlink scans the pathnames passed to it for symbolic links
  (recursing into directory trees as needed), and selectively converts
  them to real files.  In the simplest case,
    unsymlink filename
  will replace a single symbolic link with its target.
  .
  unsymlink can also operate gradually, by acting on a certain number of
  kilobytes worth of files per invocation.  This can be used on directory
  trees that are mirrored via ftp, to spread out the impact of a mass
  unsymlinking operation.
  .
  unsymlink was originally written to help manage the Debian archive.


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