Bug#309899: Bug#333222: ITP: libarchive -- Single libary to read/write tar, cpio, pax, zip, etc. files

["Bernhard R. Link" <brlink@debian.org>]

* John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> [051011 07:02]:
> 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.

The last answer I got about this was from May 2005. I back then read it
as "may come soon", but I started to think lately it meant "just copy
the code from the FreeBSD makefile for that".

> 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.

Besides the static-only thingie, I am a bit unhappy about the -doc
package. A 35k .deb package with "Installed-Size: 88" is quite wastefull
in my eyes. Especially as it mostly development manpages anyway.

Hochachtungsvoll,
	Bernhard R. Link