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| -rw-r--r-- | debian/control | 14 |
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diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 88d34d7..29ad94e 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, Description: archiver with multimember lzip compression - Tarlz is an alternative implementation of the tar archiver. It creates, lists - and extracts archives in the 'ustar' format compressed with lzip on a per file - basis. Tarlz can append files to the end of such compressed archives. + Tarlz is a combined implementation of the tar archiver and the lzip compressor. . - Each tar member is compressed in its own lzip member, as well as the - end-of-file blocks. This method works for any tar format and is fully backward - compatible with standard tar tools like GNU tar, which treat the resulting - multimember tar.lz archive like any other tar.lz archive. + By default it creates, lists and extracts archives with lzip on a per file + basis. Each tar member is compressed in its own lzip member, as well as the + end-of-file blocks. This method adds an indexed lzip layer on top of the tar + archive, making it possible to decode the archive safely in parallel. + The resulting multimember tar.lz archive is fully backward compatible with + standard tar tools like GNU tar, which treat it like any other tar.lz archive. |