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Re: [ITP] pbzip2 (and what was the upshot on pbzip2/libbz2 incompatibility?)


On Aug  8 09:46, Peter Li wrote:
> On 08/08/2011 01:01 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Aug  7 20:31, Peter Li wrote:
> >>This builds out of the box; I just pulled the packaging files from
> >>cygports (thanks!).  Think it's worth adding to main distro though.
> >>
> >>It's in most distros:
> >>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/pbzip2?_csrf_token=ad400067b7e05d4afe0cb7e74860399022796bce
> >>     http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/pbzip2
> >>     http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=pbzip2
> >>     http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/archivers/pbzip2/
> >>
> >>category: Archive
> >>requires: libbz2_1 libgcc1 libstdc++6
> >>sdesc: "Parallel BZIP2 de/compressor"
> >>ldesc: "PBZIP2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting
> >>file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on
> >>SMP machines. The output of this version is fully compatible with bzip2."
> >>
> >>
> >>If I get a green light I'll go ahead and upload the package from my
> >>laptop when I get a moment.
> >Sure.  Usually you ITP with URLs to the package files already.  It's not
> >so much a question of allowance, but of your intention to maintain a
> >package in the Cygwin distro.
> As they distribute a "windows" binary with cygwin.dll, I presume
> there will be minimal build problems in future.  The maintainers
> seem active and responsive.  So I think I can commit to maintain the
> Cygwin package.
> 
> wget -x -nH --cut-dirs=2 \
> http://chichilnisky.salk.edu/peterli/cygwin/pbzip2/pbzip2-1.1.5-1-src.tar.bz2
> http://chichilnisky.salk.edu/peterli/cygwin/pbzip2/pbzip2-1.1.5-1.tar.bz2

Uploaded.  Please announce.


Thanks,
Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat


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