Bug#849154: ITP: xattrvi -- easily view and edit extended filesystem attributes in user-namespace

[Jonas Große Sundrup]

Am 23.12.2016 um 09:47 schrieb bugs-deb...@antipoul.fr:
>> * URL : https://github.com/cherti/mailexporter
> The correct URL seems to be https://github.com/cherti/xattrvi

Oops, you are absolutely right. Slipup of mine when filing the ITP, it
it will be correct in the package. Thanks for pointing out!


> Interesting piece of software though.

Thanks, I'll try to still get it into stretch, we'll see. :)


  ~ Jonas

Bug#849154: ITP: xattrvi -- easily view and edit extended filesystem attributes in user-namespace

[Jonas Große Sundrup]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Jonas Große Sundrup" 

* Package name: xattrvi
  Version : 1.0
  Upstream Author : Jonas Große Sundrup 
* URL : https://github.com/cherti/mailexporter
* License : GPL-3
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description : easily view and edit extended filesystem attributes in the 
user-namespace

xattrvi allows editing of extended attributes of files in the user-namespace
by providing those in an editable file which can be viewed and modified
using the user's preferred editor. This improves the usability of extended
attributes for annotation purposes on files by users and therefore would
benefit the users of Debian.
It is actively used by myself and only depends on the python-standard library.
The user experience is similar to ldapvi, although the objective is different.
Similar software include setfattr and getfattr, which are more powerful (e.g.
they can also annotate symlinks which xattrvi can't), but aren't as convenient
as xattrvi for reasons as that they cannot display all key-value pairs in one
go. 
Therefore xattrvi and {s,g}etfattr complement each other very well, the former
for notes like origin-URL, the latter for scripts and non-userspace-xattrs.