Bug#1016018: ITP: rust-cid-npm -- CLI tool to generate CIDs without a full IPFS client

[Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke@debian.org>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : rust-cid-npm
  Version         : 0.0~git20200813.59cf068
  Upstream Author : Dan Shields <nukemandan@protonmail.com>
* URL             : https://gitlab.com/NukeManDan/rust_cid_npm
* License         : MIT, Apache-2.0
  Programming Lang: Rust
  Description     : CLI tool to generate CIDs without a full IPFS client

The intent of the tools is to be for CID generation/verification only. It is
not in any way an IPFS client.

The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a protocol and peer-to-peer network
for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system. IPFS uses
content-addressing to uniquely identify each file in a global namespace
connecting all computing devices.[

A content identifier, or CID, is a label used to point to material in IPFS. It
doesn't indicate where the content is stored, but it forms a kind of address
based on the content itself. CIDs are short, regardless of the size of their
underlying content.

The package will be maintained by Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke@debian.org>
at https://salsa.debian.org/debian/rust_cid_npm