Use of hfsprogs in Ubuntu

[Rogério Brito]

Hi. I am the maintainer of hfsprogs, the fsck and mkfs programs
developed by Apple for use with HFS+ filesystems.

HFS+ filesystems are important because the Linux kernel supports it
out-of-the-box and, with a repair utility (fsck.hfsplus), this means
that we have an option to use a filesystem that does not suffer from
limitations of FAT32 and is able to carry the files between systems in
an easy way.

I have updated the package hfsprogs with a new upload to Debian (which
has not been incorporated in intrepid yet), but the package has a catch:
it is not 64-bit clean and I have to resort to some hacks for
compilation under my amd64 system (actually, a Pentium D with Debian
unstable).

I would like to ask you two things:

1 - would it be possible to upgrade the package from the Debian
    repository?
2 - since I plan on packaging it so that it compiles on all arches
    available on Debian, I would like to ask if any of you would like to
    help me with this task in a cooperative way (I plan on creating a
    repository on Debian's Alioth service).

Please, as I am not subscribed to ubuntu-motu, I would appreciate carbon
copies of the replies.


Thanks, Rogério Brito.

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