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

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 11:38:45AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> > 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.

I originally hadn't split it out, but the manpage for bsdtar refers to
several manpages in there -- most importantly, libarchive-formats, which
documents the formats available for use with bsdtar, and also tar(5).

The documentation for bsdtar is really incomplete without those pages,
but the -dev package has a bunch of deps on other -dev packages, so it
seemed silly to require people to install a whole bunch of -dev packages
just to get at the documentation for tar.

-- John