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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
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