Bug#78872: ITP: binfmt-support -- Support for extra binary formats (fwd)

[Colin Watson <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>]

Forwarding to debian-mentors; it didn't make it last time due to a silly
typo.

----- Forwarded message from Colin Watson <cjw44@flatline.org.uk> -----

Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 00:33:17 +0000
From: Colin Watson <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: ITP: binfmt-support -- Support for extra binary formats
Message-ID: <20001206003317.B2951@riva.ucam.org>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i
Organization: riva.ucam.org
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-mentors@bugs.debian.org

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

I discussed this package in
<URL:http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0004/msg00066.html>; I'd hoped
that my NM application would go a lot more quickly than it has, so I
haven't formally ITPed it until now.

Package: binfmt-support
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 36
Maintainer: Colin Watson <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>
Architecture: all
Version: 1.0.2
Depends: perl5
Description: Support for extra binary formats
 The binfmt_misc kernel module, contained in versions 2.1.43 and later of the
 Linux kernel, allows system administrators to register interpreters for
 various binary formats based on a magic number or their file extension, and
 cause the appropriate interpreter to be invoked whenever a matching file is
 executed. Think of it as a more flexible version of the #! executable
 interpreter mechanism.
 .
 This package provides an 'update-binfmts' script with which package
 maintainers can register interpreters to be used with this module without
 having to worry about writing their own init.d scripts, and which sysadmins
 can use for a slightly higher-level interface to this module.

I'm the author, the licence is GPL, and it's lintian-clean. The main
limitation at the moment is the lack of Hurd compatibility, which will
have to wait until I have time to get my Hurd system going properly.
Packages are at <URL:http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/debian>
(1.0.2 will be there shortly after I submit this bug report).

I've Cc'd this message to debian-devel because I'm not yet a developer,
and so I'm looking for a sponsor for this package. If anybody is
interested and would contact me, it would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]