Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi,
We're entering the deep freeze in a few hours, and this mail should have been sent a while ago, but let's not delay this any further: the Debian Installer team requests assistance with maintaining the busybox package. [ So please make sure to include debian-b...@lists.debian.org in copy if you're replying to this message. ] The description of the main package is the following: BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for the most common utilities you would usually find on your desktop system (i.e., ls, cp, mv, mount, tar, etc.). The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. . This package installs the BusyBox binary but does not install symlinks for any of the supported utilities. Some of the utilities can be used in the system by installing the busybox-syslogd, busybox-udhcpc or busybox-udhcpd packages. The full list of binaries is as follows: - busybox - busybox-static - busybox-udeb - busybox-syslogd - udhcpc - udhcpd The busybox-udeb package is one of the basic building blocks of the Debian Installer, which means that busybox maintenance includes making sure any regressions spotted there can be fixed in a timely manner. KiBi.