cramfs package not included in artful

[StoatWblr]

cramfs/cramfsprogs is missing from artful (it was there in previous versions)

This is problematic as the fuse packages for this fs don't include cramfsck and things like binwalk need that.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Looks like it was removed from 17.10 with the following message:
"(From Debian) ROM; obsoleted by squashfs and initramfs (...)"
See https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cramfs/+publishinghistory and https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=800316 for more details.

[StoatWblr (stoatwblr)]

The problem (of course) being that a lot of embedded IoT devices still use it, meaning that if you want to pick them apart or modify them, it's needed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[René Vögeli (rvoegeli)]

Still needed for embedded development in bionic.

[Data Brezack (dbrezack)]

Still needed for development purposes in bionic or focal

[Steven Meyer (stevenskyline)]

Still needed for development purposes in bionic & focal.

This should've never been removed since lots of embedded/IoT devices still use it. I remember quite a few tools breaking and thinking this PiTA would've been sorted out by the next LTS. Fast forward two years and it's still unassigned.

[David Byrne (davidribyrne)]

So annoying. If it helps anyone, I updated the source code so they will compile on Ubuntu 20.04.

https://github.com/davidribyrne/cramfs