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Re: Bug#201125: ITP: par2 -- Parity Archive v2



Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org> wrote:
> * 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.
[...]
> (I have contacted Rene Weber, maintainer of parchive, to see if he(?)
> intends to package par2.
[...]

Hello,
Is there a good reason why this is called par2 instead of parchive2?
Take a look at apt-cache show par
              cu andreas
-- 
Hey, da ist ein Ballonautomat auf der Toilette!
Unofficial _Debian-packages_ of latest unstable _tin_
http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/tin-snapshot/



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