Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2004-01-26 Severity: wishlist * Package name : hfsprogs Version : dunno Upstream Author : Apple Computer Inc. * URL : http://developer.apple.com/darwin/ * License : APSL Description : mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
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. The resulting package will have to go into non-free due to Apple's license, but better non-free than none. -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux pygar 2.4.23-acheron #1 SMP Do Jan 8 13:34:01 CET 2004 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
