Dear Debian People, I wonder if it would be possible to package and include two simple but extremely useful command line programs in Debian? I wrote them 10 years and 7 years ago; they have stood the test of time and remain useful.
First is disk-filltest - A Simple Tool to Detect Bad Disks by Filling with Random Data https://panthema.net/2013/disk-filltest/ It is a one-file .c program which fills a path with random data and then rereads the files to check that the random sequence was correctly stored. I still use it to check storage media for errors. and second is digup - A Digest Updating Tool https://panthema.net/2009/digup/ digup is a console tool to update md5sum or shasum digest files. It will read existing digest files, check the current directory for new, updated, modified, renamed or deleted files and query the user with a summary of changes. After reviewing the updates, they can be written back to the digest file. Both are highly portable, have no library dependencies, and are trivial to compile (first only a Makefile, second a autoconf/automake setup). If someone would be interested in packaging them, please ping me back. Best Regards, Timo Bingmann