Package: wnpp
Owner: Balint Reczey <bal...@balintreczey.hu>
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : apt-eatmydata
  Version         : 1
* URL             : https://salsa.debian.org/debian/apt-eatmydata
* License         : Expat
  Description     : Disable fsync and friends for APT's dpkg calls

This package contains a small configuration snippet to instruct
APT to run dpkg via eatmydata to disable fsync and similar calls for
dpkg and programs ran by dpkg. As noted in eatmydata's description this
makes installation a lot quicker, but less crash safe.

This package may be most useful in temporary containers, chroots, or
where a system crash during package installation leaving the system in
an inconsistent state is manageable.

For more information why dpkg calls fsync() see:
https://bugs.debian.org/613428

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