1Source: e2fsprogs
2Section: base
3Priority: required
4Maintainer: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
5Standards-Version: 2.4.0.0
6
7Package: e2fsprogs
8Essential: yes
9Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
10Conflicts: e2fsprogsg, dump (<< 0.4b4-4), quota (<< 1.55-8.1)
11Architecture: any
12Description: The EXT2 file system utilities.
13 EXT2 stands for "Extended Filesystem", version 2. It's the main
14 filesystem type used for hard disks on Debian and other Linux systems.
15 .
16 This package contains programs for creating, checking, and maintaining EXT2
17 filesystems, and the generic `fsck' wrapper.
18 .
19 This release may break older versions of dump and quota.
20
21Package: comerr2g
22Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
23Conflicts: e2fsprogs (<< 1.10-6), comerr2
24Architecture: any
25Description: The Common Error Description library - shared libraries.
26 libcomerr is an attempt to present a common error-handling mechanism to
27 manipulate the most common form of error code in a fashion that does not
28 have the problems identified with mechanisms commonly in use.
29 .
30 It is mainly used by the EXT2-filesystem tools.
31
32Package: ss2g
33Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
34Conflicts: e2fsprogs (<< 1.10-6), ss2
35Architecture: any
36Description: "Sub-System" library for simple command-line interface parsing - shared libs
37 This package contains the shared libs to support command-line
38 interface parsers generated with the ssg-dev package.
39 . 
40 It was originally inspired by the Multics SubSystem library.
41
42Package: e2fslibsg
43Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
44Provides: ext2fs2g, e2p2g, uuid1g
45Conflicts: e2fsprogs (<= 1.10-7)
46Architecture: any
47Description: The EXT2 file system shared libs.
48 EXT2 stands for "Extended Filesystem", version 2. It's the filesystem type
49 used for hard disks on Debian and other Linux systems.
50 .
51 This package contains shared libraries needed by the utility programs.
52
53Package: comerrg-dev
54Section: devel
55Priority: extra
56Depends: ${libcdev:Depends}, comerr2g
57Suggests: doc-base
58Conflicts: e2fsprogs (<< 1.10-6), comerr-dev
59Architecture: any
60Description: The Common Error Description library - headers and static libraries.
61 libcomerr is an attempt to present a common error-handling mechanism to
62 manipulate the most common form of error code in a fashion that does not
63 have the problems identified with mechanisms commonly in use.
64
65Package: ssg-dev
66Section: devel
67Priority: extra
68Depends: ${libcdev:Depends}, ss2g
69Conflicts: e2fsprogs (<< 1.10-6), ss-dev
70Architecture: any
71Description: "Sub-System" library for simple command-line interface parsing - devel. files
72 This package includes a tool that parses a command table to generate
73 a simple command-line interface parser, the include files needed to
74 compile and use it, and the static libs.
75 . 
76 It was originally inspired by the Multics SubSystem library.
77
78Package: e2fslibsg-dev
79Section: devel
80Priority: extra
81Depends: ${libcdev:Depends}, e2fslibsg, comerrg-dev
82Suggests: doc-base
83Provides: ext2fsg-dev, e2pg-dev, uuidg-dev
84Conflicts: e2fsprogs (<< 1.10-6), e2fslibs-dev
85Architecture: any
86Description: The headers and static libraries for ext2fs-aware tools-development.
87 EXT2FS stands for "Extended Filesystem", version 2. It's the filesystem
88 type used for hard disks on Debian and other Linux systems.
89 .
90 This package contains the headers and shared libraries needed to compile
91 ext2fs-aware programs. Only programmers that really manipulate
92 features specific to the ext2 filesystem will need this. Most
93 programmers will use the generic filesystem-independent interface
94 from libc.
95 .
96 It also contains dev files for 2 other libs (e2p and uuid) used by
97 the e2fsprogs, but which are not yet packaged all by themselves
98 because they lack documentation. They may also lack some support
99 files, by I can't really know until someone uses them...
100 .
101 libe2p is for user-level e2fsprogs commands.  It's used by dumpe2fs,
102 chattr, and lsattr.  Functions in libe2p typically have two
103 characteristics (a) don't require that block device containing the
104 filesystem be opened directly (functions in libext2fs do), and (b)
105 libe2p typically contains printf statements or parse user input, and so
106 have more internationalization issues.
107 .
108 libuuid generates and parses 128-bit universally unique id's (UUID's),
109 using a standard which is blessed by both Microsoft and DCE, and is
110 being proposed as an internet standard.  See the internet-draft:
111 .
112                draft-leach-uuids-guids-01.txt
113 .
114 for more information.
115