Bug#421548: RFP: avfs -- virtual filesystem to access the content of archives and disk images (.zip, .rar, .tar, .iso, .img etc) without unpacking them

[Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : avfs
  Version         : 0.9.7
  Upstream Author : Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@inf.bme.hu>, Ralf Hoffmann <ralf@boomerangsworld.de>
* URL             : http://sourceforge.net/projects/avf/
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : FUSE-based virtual filesystem to access archives and disk images (.zip, .rar, .tar, .iso, .img etc) and remote locations (ftp, http, dav, etc)

AVFS (A Virtual FileSystem) enables all programs to look inside archived
or compressed files, or access remote files without recompiling the
programs or changing the kernel. 

At the moment it supports floppies, tar and gzip files, zip, bzip2, ar
and rar files, ftp sessions, http, webdav, rsh/rcp, ssh/scp. Quite a few
other handlers are implemented with the Midnight Commander's external
FS.

It can be used either via FUSE or through a kernel module.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash