Source: binfmt-support
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Standards-Version: 4.0.0
Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
               libpipeline-dev,
               pkg-config,
Homepage: https://nongnu.org/binfmt-support/
Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/binfmt-support.git
Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/binfmt-support
Rules-Requires-Root: no

Package: binfmt-support
Architecture: any
Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends},
Depends: lsb-base,
         ${misc:Depends},
         ${shlibs:Depends},
Multi-Arch: foreign
Description: Support for extra binary formats
 The binfmt_misc kernel module, contained in versions 2.1.43 and later of the
 Linux kernel, allows system administrators to register interpreters for
 various binary formats based on a magic number or their file extension, and
 cause the appropriate interpreter to be invoked whenever a matching file is
 executed. Think of it as a more flexible version of the #! executable
 interpreter mechanism.
 .
 This package provides an 'update-binfmts' script with which package
 maintainers can register interpreters to be used with this module without
 having to worry about writing their own init.d scripts, and which sysadmins
 can use for a slightly higher-level interface to this module.