I intend to orphan the metastore package. I have not used it for some
time, the last upstream release was in 2018 and the upstream author
mentioned in a GitHub issue that he's no longer able to release new
versions:
https://github.com/przemoc/metastore/issues/65
There are no reverse dependencies, the package could also simply be
removed.
The package description is:
metastore is a tool to store the metadata of files/directories/links in
a file tree to a separate file and to later compare and apply the
stored metadata to said file tree.
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The tool was written as a supplement to git which does not store all
metadata, making it unsuitable for e.g. storing /etc in a repo.
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metastore can also be helpful in a backup script if you want to create
a tarball of a file tree and make sure that "everything" (e.g. xattrs,
mtime, owner, group) is stored along with the files.