Source: metastore Section: misc Priority: optional Maintainer: Romain Francoise Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11~), libbsd-dev Standards-Version: 4.1.3 Homepage: https://github.com/przemoc/metastore Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/rfrancoise/metastore Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/rfrancoise/metastore.git Package: metastore Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Description: Store and restore metadata from a filesystem 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.