Source: hfsprogs Section: non-free/otherosfs XS-Autobuild: yes Priority: optional Maintainer: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12), dh-exec, libbsd-dev, libssl-dev, uuid-dev Standards-Version: 4.5.0 Homepage: https://opensource.apple.com/source/diskdev_cmds/ Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/hfsprogs Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/hfsprogs.git Package: hfsprogs Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems The HFS+ file system used by Apple Computer for their Mac OS is supported by the Linux kernel. Apple provides mkfs and fsck for HFS+ with the Unix core of their operating system, Darwin. . This package is a port of Apple's tools for HFS+ filesystems. . For users, HFS+ seems to be a good compromise to carry files between MacOS X and Linux Machines, as HFS+ doesn't suffer the problems of FAT32 like: . * huge space waste (in slack space as devices grow faster); * ability to create files that are more than 4GB in size (especially good for those working with multimedia and that need to carry large ISO files); * ability to use case preserving (and even sensitivity!); * ability to use uid's and gid's on the filesystem. . Users in general can enjoy such benefits since it is expected to have more HFS+ filesystems in use, as Apple has announced Macintoshes for ix86-64, besides the filesystem being already supported by PowerPC systems since the beginning. Package: hfsprogs-udeb XC-Package-Type: udeb Architecture: any Section: non-free/debian-installer Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Description: stripped-down version of hfsprogs, for debian-installer This package is a hfsprogs package built for reduced size, so that it can help to save space in debian-installer. . Don't attempt to install this package, it has no support for a couple of features you surely want. Anyway, it should fail to install.