Re: Bug#296279: ITP: tarp -- small script adding progress bar support for GNU tar

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

verdan@pirx.int.pl wrote:
>Package: wnpp
>Severity: wishlist
>Owner: Grzegorz Bizon <verdan@pirx.int.pl>
>
>
>* Package name    : tarp
>  Version         : 0.9
>  Upstream Author : Michal Kwiatkowski <ruby@joker.linuxstuff.pl>
>* URL             : http://joker.linuxstuff.pl
>* License         : GPL
>  Description     : small script adding progress bar support for GNU tar
>
> Simple perl script adding progress bar support
> for GNU tar.

Please, no!

leo:~$ ls -al tarp.pl 
-rw-rw-r--  1 steve pcs 7305 Feb 19 15:42 tarp.pl

We don't need Yet Another Tiny Package in the archive for a 7KB perl
wrapper script. If you find this useful, please ask the tar maintainer
to include it in the tar package via a wishlist bug instead...

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
"C++ ate my sanity" -- Jon Rabone