Source: fl-cow Maintainer: Debian QA Group Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) Build-Conflicts: autoconf2.13, automake1.4, Section: utils Priority: optional Standards-Version: 4.7.0 Homepage: http://www.xmailserver.org/flcow.html Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/fl-cow Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/fl-cow.git Package: fl-cow Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, Description: copy-on-write utility Fl-cow allows you to utilise hard links to save disk space by causing hard-linked files to be copied rather than overwritten as they are changed. . This is useful for making changes to large source trees while keeping a copy of the original tree to generate patches from. Also, if you are using the Arch revision control system with working copies hard-linked to a revision library, using fl-cow can prevent revision library corruption. . Fl-cow is an LD_PRELOAD hack, not a kernel patch.