Package: wnpp Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: metast...@packages.debian.org Control: affects -1 + src:metastore
I intend to orphan the metastore package. I have not used it for some time, the last upstream release was in 2018 and the upstream author mentioned in a GitHub issue that he's no longer able to release new versions: https://github.com/przemoc/metastore/issues/65 There are no reverse dependencies, the package could also simply be removed. The package description is: metastore is a tool to store the metadata of files/directories/links in a file tree to a separate file and to later compare and apply the stored metadata to said file tree. . The tool was written as a supplement to git which does not store all metadata, making it unsuitable for e.g. storing /etc in a repo. . metastore can also be helpful in a backup script if you want to create a tarball of a file tree and make sure that "everything" (e.g. xattrs, mtime, owner, group) is stored along with the files.
