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

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

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.

> Separately, I'm curious what the upshot was on this earlier
> discussion of pbzip2 incompatibilities:
>     http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2011-03/msg00160.html

I think that's fixed in setup.  Jon applied a couple of patches to
setup on 2011-04-08 which are related, AFAICS.


Corinna

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