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@@ -7,15 +7,16 @@ on embedded devices, live systems or simply as a compressed archive format. Think of it as a .tar.gz that you can mount (or XZ, LZO, LZ4, ZSTD). -The filesystem itself and the user space tooling were originally developed by -Phillip Lougher with third party contributions that have accumulated over time. - -Unfortunately, the original user space tooling does not support a lot of -standard use cases, the source code of the tools is in a pretty deteriorated -state and apparently no longer maintained. - -This package contains the source code of a complete rewrite of the user space -tools that attempt to address many of the problems of the old tools: +As the name suggests, this is not the original user space tooling for +SquashFS, which are currently maintained in parallel elsewhere. After a +long period of silence on the SourceForge site and mailing list, I +attempted to fork the existing code base with the intention to +restructure/clean it up and add many features I personally perceived to +be missing, but I ultimately decided that it would be easier to start +from scratch than to work with the existing code. + +Here are some of the features that primarily distinguish this package from +the (at the time of writing recent) squashfs-tools 4.3: - Reproducible SquashFS images, i.e. deterministic packing without any local time stamps. |