Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Benjamin Drung <bdr...@debian.org> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, bdr...@debian.org
* Package name : rust-threecpio Version : 0.8.0 Upstream Contact: Benjamin Drung <bdr...@debian.org> * URL : https://github.com/bdrung/3cpio * License : ISC Programming Lang: Rust Description : Manage initrd cpio archives cpio is a tool to manage initramfs cpio files for the Linux kernel. The Linux kernel's initramfs buffer format is based around the newc or crc cpio formats. Multiple cpio archives can be concatenated and the last archive can be compressed. Different compression algorithms can be used depending on what support was compiled into the Linux kernel. 3cpio is tailored to initramfs cpio files and will not gain support for other cpio formats. . 3cpio supports creating, examining, listing, and extracting the content of the initramfs cpio. I like to join the Debian Rust packaging team and maintain 3cpio as part of the team. I'll be at DebConf next week which would be a good time to get in contact with the team and learn the specifics of it. The plan is to replace cpio by 3cpio in Ubuntu main by letting initramfs-tools and dracut learn to use 3cpio. The change for initramfs-tools is already ready for review/testing: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/initramfs-tools/-/merge_requests/172 3cpio is written in Rust and is faster than cpio. See https://github.com/bdrung/3cpio for benchmark results. -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
