Bug#279551: ITP: zsync -- A client-side implementation of the rsync algorithm

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

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 ;)

What about rdiff and librdiff?  It seems like we already have this.

It's even being used (see rdiff-backup)

-- John

> 
> cu  robert
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 3.1
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.9
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro
> 
> -- 
> Robert Lemmen                               http://www.semistable.com