Bug#944674: ITP: tarmux -- A tool to multiplex and demultiplex streams from pipes to tar and back again.

[Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>

* Package name    : tarmux
  Version         : 1.0.2
  Upstream Author : Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>
* URL             : https://github.com/minfrin/tarmux
* License         : ASL2
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : A tool to multiplex and demultiplex streams from pipes to tar and back again.

Tarmux attempts to solve the problem of handling streamed data where there is insufficient temporary
space on disk to hold the data, as is forced by tar.

In the simplest invocation, tarmux takes a stream from stdin, and creates a tar file consisting of
sequential numbered file fragments one after the other. This can be reversed by the tardemux tool,
which will untar the fragments and reassemble the stream to stdout.

The tardemux tool only reads a single tar stream before exiting. This allows multiple streams to be
concatenated in the same stream, and then split out by each invocation of tardemux.

(Happy to maintain the package, but need a co-maintainer or sponsor to
show me what to do)