Bug#333230: ITP: bsdtar -- tar(1) from FreeBSD, with read support for tar/zip/ISO9660/cpio using libarchive

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>

* Package name    : bsdtar
  Version         : 1.02.034
  Upstream Author : kientzle@freebsd.org
* URL             : http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/
* License         : BSD
  Description     : tar(1) from FreeBSD, with read support for tar/zip/ISO9660/cpio using libarchive

 The bsdtar program has a number of advantages over previous tar
 implementations:
 .
 * Library. Since the core functionality is in a library, it can be
   used by other tools, such as pkg_add.
 .
 * Automatic format detection. Libarchive automatically detects the
   compression (none/gzip/bzip2) and format (old tar, ustar, gnutar,
   pax, cpio, iso9660, zip) when reading archives. It does this for
   any data source.
 .
 * Pax Interchange Format Support. This is a POSIX/SUSv3 extension to
   the old "ustar" tar format that adds arbitrary extended attributes
   to each entry. Does everything that GNU tar format does, only
   better.
 .
 * Handles file flags, ACLs, arbitrary pathnames, etc. Pax interchange
   format supports key/value attributes using an easily-extensible
   technique. Arbitrary pathnames, group names, user names, file sizes
   are part of the POSIX standard; libarchive extends this with
   support for file flags, ACLs, and arbitrary device numbers.
 .
 * GNU tar support. Libarchive reads most GNU tar archives. If there
   is demand, this can be improved further.
 .
 * BSD license. 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-rc4-mm2
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)