Dear people,
I am the maintainer of hfsprogs, which is a package taken from Apple's
Darwin code that provides a mkfs.hfs{,plus} and, more importantly,
fsck.hfs{,plus}.Unfortunately, the present version has problems not being 64-bit clean and, as a result, I had to restrict the list of architectures to those that are 32 bit only. This has been reported as bug #436159 on our bug tracking system. As I myself have all the interest to have this package available on as many architectures as possible (since, in particular, I use an amd64 machine, but keep some of my data/backups on external HDs formatted with HFS+), it would be ideal to have it as arch: any. But alas, it is not. :-( It won't compile without a number of patches and I have already got Gentoo's patch as a starting point for the package. But it would be better to have it divided as a series of independent patches (as I already use quilt to manage the patches). I have already started doing this. Seeing that Apple has released a new version to match their Leopard release, it would be a good thing to keep the patches separate as some parts will apply nicely while others are obsolete now (the code has changed a bit, but not much). As I posted on ubuntuforums.org [*], for this goal, I would like to see if there are interested developers so that I would create a project on Alioth to maintain patches that are team-maintained and which would clean up miscoding, warnings, consistency, correctness and, perhaps, submit them upstream so that we can reduce our work in the future (and have a more solid filesystem for exchange of data between computers). I have already made a package yesterday that uses the 32-bit emulation of amd64 to have a functioning fsck.hfsplus program and I plan on uploading it to experimental, but it is based on older source code, not on the new upstream version (let's move one step at a time). So, that is it. If you have interest and know of more people interested in this (like Ubuntu people), please let me know. BTW, as I am not subscribed to any specific Debian list nowadays (besides -devel-announce), I would appreciate CC's. Regards, Rogério Brito. [*] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4919975 -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org
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