Bug#333222: ITP: libarchive -- Single libary to read/write tar, cpio, pax, zip, etc. files

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 03:56:31PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> There is already an ITP for this from me at bugs.debian.org/309899.
> I'm currently still investigating building dynamic libraries (and hoping
> upstream might implement them before me).
> If you'd like to overtake this, or some co-maintained efford, let me
> know.

Hi Bernhard,

I don't know how I missed that.  I apologize for that!

In any case, I have just uploaded the libarchive-dev package.  I also
wrote to the author last night about the shared library issue and
haven't heard back yet.

I'd be happy to co-maintain it with you.  I do have all my Debian
packages up in darcs already, if that would be interesting to you.  You
can use:

darcs get http://darcs.complete.org/debian/libarchive

to check out my tree for this package.

I have also ITP'd bsdtar, the tar(1) from FreeBSD, which uses libarchive
for most of its work.  I plan to upload that in an hour or so.

Thanks,

-- John Goerzen