Bug#1065104: ITP: xar -- Archiver for the macOS eXtensible ARchive format

[Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Owner: Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>
Severity: wishlist

 * Package name    : xar
   Version         : 498
   Upstream Author : Christopher Ryan, Apple
 * URL             : https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xar
 * License         : BSD-3-Clause
   Programming Lang: C
   Description     : Archiver for the macOS eXtensible ARchive format

XAR (short for eXtensible ARchive format) is an open source file 
archiver and the archiver’s file format. It was created within the 
OpenDarwin project and is used in macOS for software installation routines.

This package can be used to unpack macOS .pkg files.

I intend to have the package team maintained, and will therefore create 
a git repository at https://salsa.debian.org/debian/xar.
Suggestions for a more specific team, or wishes to take over are welcome 
(the package is outside of my own topic, but I need it).

The package was already in Debian until ~2010, when it was removed 
because it was unmaintained. However it seems that it survived and is 
under maintenance again.

Best regards

Ole