Source: e2fsprogs Section: base Priority: required Maintainer: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org> Standards-Version: 2.4.0.0 Package: e2fsprogs Essential: yes Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} Conflicts: e2fsprogsg, dump (<< 0.4b4-4), quota (<< 1.55-8.1) Architecture: any Description: The EXT2 file system utilities. EXT2 stands for "Extended Filesystem", version 2. It's the main filesystem type used for hard disks on Debian and other Linux systems. . This package contains programs for creating, checking, and maintaining EXT2 filesystems, and the generic `fsck' wrapper. . This release may break older versions of dump and quota. Package: comerr2g Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} Conflicts: e2fsprogs (<< 1.10-6), comerr2 Architecture: any Description: The Common Error Description library - shared libraries. libcomerr is an attempt to present a common error-handling mechanism to manipulate the most common form of error code in a fashion that does not have the problems identified with mechanisms commonly in use. . It is mainly used by the EXT2-filesystem tools. Package: ss2g Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} Conflicts: e2fsprogs (<< 1.10-6), ss2 Architecture: any Description: "Sub-System" library for simple command-line interface parsing - shared libs This package contains the shared libs to support command-line interface parsers generated with the ssg-dev package. . It was originally inspired by the Multics SubSystem library. Package: e2fslibsg Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} Provides: ext2fs2g, e2p2g, uuid1g Conflicts: e2fsprogs (<= 1.10-7) Architecture: any Description: The EXT2 file system shared libs. EXT2 stands for "Extended Filesystem", version 2. It's the filesystem type used for hard disks on Debian and other Linux systems. . This package contains shared libraries needed by the utility programs. Package: comerrg-dev Section: devel Priority: extra Depends: ${libcdev:Depends}, comerr2g Suggests: doc-base Conflicts: e2fsprogs (<< 1.10-6), comerr-dev Architecture: any Description: The Common Error Description library - headers and static libraries. libcomerr is an attempt to present a common error-handling mechanism to manipulate the most common form of error code in a fashion that does not have the problems identified with mechanisms commonly in use. Package: ssg-dev Section: devel Priority: extra Depends: ${libcdev:Depends}, ss2g Conflicts: e2fsprogs (<< 1.10-6), ss-dev Architecture: any Description: "Sub-System" library for simple command-line interface parsing - devel. files This package includes a tool that parses a command table to generate a simple command-line interface parser, the include files needed to compile and use it, and the static libs. . It was originally inspired by the Multics SubSystem library. Package: e2fslibsg-dev Section: devel Priority: extra Depends: ${libcdev:Depends}, e2fslibsg, comerrg-dev Suggests: doc-base Provides: ext2fsg-dev, e2pg-dev, uuidg-dev Conflicts: e2fsprogs (<< 1.10-6), e2fslibs-dev Architecture: any Description: The headers and static libraries for ext2fs-aware tools-development. EXT2FS stands for "Extended Filesystem", version 2. It's the filesystem type used for hard disks on Debian and other Linux systems. . This package contains the headers and shared libraries needed to compile ext2fs-aware programs. Only programmers that really manipulate features specific to the ext2 filesystem will need this. Most programmers will use the generic filesystem-independent interface from libc. . It also contains dev files for 2 other libs (e2p and uuid) used by the e2fsprogs, but which are not yet packaged all by themselves because they lack documentation. They may also lack some support files, by I can't really know until someone uses them... . libe2p is for user-level e2fsprogs commands. It's used by dumpe2fs, chattr, and lsattr. Functions in libe2p typically have two characteristics (a) don't require that block device containing the filesystem be opened directly (functions in libext2fs do), and (b) libe2p typically contains printf statements or parse user input, and so have more internationalization issues. . libuuid generates and parses 128-bit universally unique id's (UUID's), using a standard which is blessed by both Microsoft and DCE, and is being proposed as an internet standard. See the internet-draft: . draft-leach-uuids-guids-01.txt . for more information.