Bug#201125: ITP: par2 -- Parity Archive v2
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-13
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : par2
Version : 0.2
Upstream Author : Peter Brian Clements <peterbclements@users.sourceforge.net>
* URL : http://parchive.sorceforge.net/
* License : (GPL)
Description : Parity Archive v2
This utility applies the data-recover capability concepts of RAID-like
systems to individual and multiple files. It is most commonly used in
the posting and recovery of multipart archives on Usenet.
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It supports the 'Reed-Soloman Code' implementation that allows for
recovery of any X blocks for X parity blocks present. It is popularly
used on USENET postings but is not limited to this use.
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Upstream source: http://parchive.sourceforge.net/
(I have contacted Rene Weber, maintainer of parchive, to see if he(?)
intends to package par2. Barring interest within the next week or so I
would like maintain this package. As of this writing I have a package
put together which passes lintian but does have a few problems. Namely
the build-depends is not correct and it installs 4 man pages when 1 with
3 symlinks will do. I am not a current maintainer and will be looking
to become a maintainer for this and other packages.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux teleute 2.4.21 #1 SMP Sat Jul 5 17:29:22 PDT 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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