Bug#279551: ITP: zsync -- A client-side implementation of the rsync algorithm
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 06:52:50PM +0100, Robert Lemmen wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name : zsync
> Version : 0.0.4
> Upstream Author : Colin Phipps <cph@moria.org.uk>
> * URL : http://zsync.moria.org.uk/
> * License : GPLv2
> Description : A client-side implementation of the rsync algorithm
>
> This package allows updating of files from a remote web server without
> requiring a full download or a special remote server application.
>
> the description will be a bit more elaborate, talking it over with
> upstream. there will also be a libzsync and a libzsync-dev package to
> use it in other programs (apt for example ;)
Sounds promising!
One suggestion, this package is claimed to be only alpha by upsteam. It
also at the moment copies several C files from zlib and rsync, in stead
of linking to it as library. This poses a security support risk: this
package would need to get patched on rsync or zlib security updates too,
something that wouldn't be needed if you dynamically linked to it.
Rsync comes with a stand alone program to create some kind of index
files, isn't this also in some way usable for zsync?
Anyway, since the author says it's alpha, maybe it's a good idea to
upload to experimal only while it still matures -- the program didn't
exist at all yet a month ago. While it works, I don't think zsyncr has
already a place in a Debian stable release.
Keep up the good work!
--Jeroen
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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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