Bug#236690: RFP: rzip -- A compression utility that works well for large files

[Mike Paul <mbp2@lehigh.edu>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : rzip
  Version         : 2.0-1
  Upstream Author : Andrew Tridgell <rzip@tridgell.net>
* URL             : http://rzip.samba.org/
* License         : GPL version 2 or later
  Description     : A compression utility that works well for large files

As described on its website, "rzip is a compression program, similar in
functionality to gzip or bzip2, but able to take advantage of
long-distance redundancies in files, which can sometimes allow rzip to
produce much better compression ratios than other programs."

In my own tests using debian-30r1-i386-binary-1_NONUS.iso, rzip with
maximum compression ("-9") produces an output file 8% smaller than that
produced by bzip2, in the same length of time.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.1
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8