Bug#284468: #284468 RFP: the captive fs to write on NTFS

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 06.12.04 Hilmar Preusse (hille42@web.de) wrote:

Hi,

Paul, Dennis: I put you in Cc, as you contributed to #284468.

> I'd like to see the captive package (NTFS R/W driver) contained in
> Debian. The home Page is:
> 
> http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
> 
I meanwhile found the time to have a further look at captive. As far
as I can see this package is rather a wrapper around a Windows DLL. So
it either needs that DLL (which is probably highly non-free) or a
working Windows installation.
As of today the README for Knoppix tells me that a combination of
libntfs and fuse provides (limited) write support on NTFS. So I guess
packaging of captive is not more necessary.

What do you thing?

Hilmar
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