Bug#860453: ITP: sparseutils -- interact with sparse files

[Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>]

Hallo,
* Lars Wirzenius [Mon, Apr 17 2017, 10:27:15AM]:

> * Package name    : sparseutils
>   Version         : 0.0.1
>   Upstream Author : Richard Ipsum <richardipsum@fastmail.co.uk>
> * URL             : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sparseutils/
> * License         : GPL3+
>   Programming Lang: Python3
>   Description     : interact with sparse files

This doesn't align with the extended description. Sounds more like
"automated creation and inspection of sparse files".

>  This package contains the utilities sparsemap and mksparse. Sparsemap
>  lists the areas of a file that are holes and data, and mksparse creates
>  a new file with holes and data.

It would be nice to have such functionality directly in fallocate(1)
rather than having to install python 3 just for that.

Regards,
Eduard.