Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julio Merino <ju...@meroh.net>
* Package name : sandboxfs Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Julio Merino <ju...@meroh.net> * URL : https://github.com/bazelbuild/sandboxfs * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Rust Description : A virtual file system for sandboxing sandboxfs is a FUSE file system that exposes a combination of multiple files and directories from the host's file system in the form of a virtual tree with an arbitrary layout. You can think of a sandbox as an arbitrary view into the host's file system with different access privileges per directory. sandboxfs is designed to allow running commands with limited access to the file system by using the virtual tree as their new root, and to do so consistently across a variety of platforms. -- Why is a package beneficial? sandboxfs' primary user is Bazel which is not included in Debian. However, I see sandboxfs as a primitive tool that should be available with minimal fuss and therefore I think a Debian package would be very beneficial for all Bazel users. Being able to tell someone "just run apt install sandboxfs" before running Bazel is much, much easier than having to tell them how to set up the Rust toolchain, build the project, and install it. Plus sandboxfs has other users outside of Bazel as it is a pretty generic FUSE file system. How will this be maintained? This package should be maintained as part of rust-team. I am not yet a Debian developer. I am the primary developer of this software and have experience in packaging for pkgsrc (NetBSD) and Fedora.
