Re: Request for review: xz-utils package description
Ben Finney wrote:
> A simple grammatical fix comes to mind:
>
> This package provides the development library needed to develop
> programs using liblzma.
Okay, let’s go with that. That leaves us with the following.
Thoughts?
Package: liblzma0
Description: XZ (and LZMA) format compression library
XZ is the successor to the Lempel-Ziv/Markov-chain Algorithm
compression format, which provides memory-hungry but powerful
compression (often better than bzip2) and fast, easy decompression.
.
The native format of liblzma is XZ; it also supports raw (headerless)
streams and the older LZMA format used by lzma. (For 7-Zip’s related
format, instead use the ‘p7zip’ package.)
.
For more information on the XZ format, see the xz-utils package.
Package: xz-utils
Description: XZ (and LZMA) format compression utilities
XZ is the successor to the Lempel-Ziv/Markov-chain Algorithm
compression format, which gives memory-hungry but powerful
compression (often better than bzip2) and fast, easy decompression.
.
This package provides the command line tools for working with XZ
compression, including xz, unxz, xzcat, xzgrep, and so on. They can
also handle the older LZMA format, and if invoked via appropriate
symlinks will emulate the behavior of the commands in the lzma
package.
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The XZ format is similar to the older LZMA format but includes some
improvements for general use:
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* ‘file’ magic for detecting XZ files
* crc64 data integrity check
* limited random-access reading support
* improved support for multithreading (not used in xz-utils)
* support for flushing the encoder
* uncompressed chunks
Package: liblzma-dev
Description: XZ (and LZMA) format compression development files
XZ is the successor to the Lempel-Ziv/Markov-chain Algorithm
compression format, which gives memory-hungry but powerful
compression (often better than bzip2) and fast, easy decompression.
.
The native format of liblzma is XZ; it also supports raw
(headerless) streams and the older LZMA format used by lzma, but
not 7-Zip’s related format (see the package p7zip). This package
provides the development library needed to build programs using
liblzma.
.
For more information about the XZ format, see the xz-utils package.
Package: liblzma-doc
Description: XZ (and LZMA) format compression API documentation
XZ is the successor to the Lempel-Ziv/Markov-chain Algorithm
compression format, which gives memory-hungry but powerful
compression (often better than bzip2) and fast, easy decompression.
.
The native format of liblzma is XZ; it also supports raw
(headerless) streams and the older LZMA format used by lzma, but
not 7-Zip’s related format (see the package p7zip).
.
This package contains a reference manual for the liblzma data
compression library, in Doxygen-generated HTML files. The purpose
of each struct, macro, and function in the public interface is
explained.
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For more information about the XZ format, see the xz-utils package.
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