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Bug#433168: marked as done (ITP: hfsprogs -- mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems)

Your message dated Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:26:21 +0000
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and subject line Bug#433168: fixed in hfsprogs 332.14-1
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>


* Package name    : hfsprogs
  Version         : 332
  Upstream Author : Apple Computer Inc.
* URL             : http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.4/
* License         : APSL 2.0
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems

This is taken from closed bug report at <http://bugs.debian.org/229769>.
It seems that the package never actually materialized itself
unfortunately.  :-(

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The HFS+ file system used by Apple Computer for their Mac OS is now
supported by the Linux kernel.  I've had ample experience with the
mkfs and fsck utilities for this file system in Linux, both from
personal use and from reports of the users of my Debian package
hfsplus.  Right now, mkfs and fsck from this package are best
described as nonexistent and totally unsuable, respectively.  The
upstream author has declared he is not going to develop these tools
any further.  So there goes another nice piece of free software.

Of course, Apple provides mkfs and fsck for HFS+ with the Unix core of
their operating system, Darwin.  Experimental ports to Linux and
FreeBSD exist, so I will start with the original Darwin source and
these ports.
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For those needing the executables, the best option up to now has been
following <http://www.debian-administration.org/users/lee/weblog/21>,
but a proper Debian package would be, of course, the preferred solution.

There are more reasons for having this package in the archive, namely:

As I see it, HFS+ seems to be a good compromise to carry files between
MacOS X and Linux Machines (and Linux has already gotten hfsplus support
in the kernel for a long time).

HFS+ doesn't suffer the problems of FAT32 like:

* huge space waste (in slack space as devices grow faster);
* ability to create files that are more than 4GB in size (especially
  good for those working with multimedia and that need to carry large
  ISO files);
* ability to use case sensitivity (but I don't know if this is already
  supported by the Linux Kernel);
* ability to be a journaled filesystem (idem);
* ability to use uid's ang gid's on the filesystem.

Among others that I don't know.

I plan on getting the newest changes/patches that I can, especially from
other distributions, especially from gentoo (which already seems to have
such HFS+ utilities available to their users).

I think that Debian users in general (since Macs have gone ix86-64 and
have also been available under PowerPC for ages) would benefit greatly
from a filesystem that is not as limited as FAT32 as pointed out above.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21.5-1 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Source: hfsprogs
Source-Version: 332.14-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
hfsprogs, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

hfsprogs_332.14-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/h/hfsprogs/hfsprogs_332.14-1.diff.gz
hfsprogs_332.14-1.dsc
  to pool/main/h/hfsprogs/hfsprogs_332.14-1.dsc
hfsprogs_332.14-1_powerpc.deb
  to pool/main/h/hfsprogs/hfsprogs_332.14-1_powerpc.deb
hfsprogs_332.14.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/h/hfsprogs/hfsprogs_332.14.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 433168@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> (supplier of updated hfsprogs package)

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Format: 1.7
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:37:02 -0300
Source: hfsprogs
Binary: hfsprogs
Architecture: source powerpc
Version: 332.14-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>
Changed-By: Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>
Description: 
 hfsprogs   - mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Closes: 433168
Changes: 
 hfsprogs (332.14-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Initial release (Closes: #433168)
   * debian/control: add dependency on libssl-dev for the hash functions
   * debian/control: add dependency on quilt
   * debian/copyright: included the complete text of the APSL 2.0
   * debian/links: create links for HFS variants of the utils and manpages
   * debian/rules: use quilt to patch the source, so we get a Makefile for Linux
   * debian/patches: incorporated patch from Gentoo to work with quilt
   * debian/patches: included patch to fix *roff warning
   * debian/patches: added patch to install bootdata on usr/share correctly
   * debian/patches: added patch to enable the -a for fsck (Tks: Adam Adam Cécile)
   * debian/dirs: added entry for directory mentioned above
   * debian/rules: added the file for wrapper HFS filesystem
   * debian/README.Debian: give the URL of the Gentoo instructions
Files: 
 aeae6fc410cc19c04e9e63dab93c31ae 585 otherosfs optional hfsprogs_332.14-1.dsc
 30aec5dd1d37ada4ad2cafcf0005035c 714035 otherosfs optional hfsprogs_332.14.orig.tar.gz
 5100f4e9ec7e54a0f08bd8e54d6b574f 32754 otherosfs optional hfsprogs_332.14-1.diff.gz
 7df3a3f19eee24d13f4965ef0da789f1 130058 otherosfs optional hfsprogs_332.14-1_powerpc.deb

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