Bug#292541: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation

[Drew Scott Daniels <umdanie8@cc.UManitoba.CA>]

Subject: RFP: pbzip2 -- Parallel bzip2 implementation
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: pbzip2
Version: 0.8.3
Upstream Author: Jeff Gilchrist <pbzip2@compression.ca>
* URL: http://compression.ca/pbzip2/
* License: "BSD-style license. For details, see the file LICENSE.txt"
Description: parallel bzip2 implementation 
PBZIP2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file
compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP
machines. The output of this version is fully compatible with bzip2
v1.0.2 (ie: anything compressed with pbzip2 can be decompressed with
bzip2).

I've cc'd (via the bts) a bunch of pts lists in case any of you are 
interested in this. Also compression related is kalzip (an alz creator)
at sourceforge.

     Drew Daniels