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diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bfe7f5c --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/control @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +Source: plzip +Section: utils +Priority: optional +Maintainer: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> +Build-Depends: + debhelper-compat (= 13), + liblz-dev, + texinfo, +Rules-Requires-Root: no +Standards-Version: 4.6.2 +Homepage: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip.html +Vcs-Browser: https://git.progress-linux.org/users/daniel.baumann/debian/packages/plzip +Vcs-Git: https://git.progress-linux.org/users/daniel.baumann/debian/packages/plzip + +Package: plzip +Section: utils +Architecture: any +Depends: + ${misc:Depends}, + ${shlibs:Depends}, +Provides: + lzip-alternative, + lzip-compressor, + lzip-decompressor, +Description: parallel, lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm + Lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm, with very safe + integrity checking and a user interface similar to the one of gzip or bzip2. + Lzip decompresses almost as fast as gzip and compresses better than bzip2, + which makes it well suited for software distribution and data archiving. + . + Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) version of lzip using the lzip + file format; the files produced by plzip are fully compatible with lzip. + . + Plzip is intended for faster compression/decompression of big files on + multiprocessor machines, which makes it specially well suited for distribution + of big software files and large scale data archiving. On files big enough, + plzip can use hundreds of processors. |