Bug#538214: ITP: libio-compress-perl -- IO::Compress modules

[Scott Kitterman <scott@kitterman.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Scott Kitterman <scott@kitterman.com>

* Package name    : libio-compress-perl
  Version         : 2.020
  Upstream Author : Paul Marquess <pmqs@cpan.org>
* URL             : http://search.cpan.org/dist/IO-Compress/
* License         : "Same terms as Perl"
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description     : IO::Compress modules

This module contains all IO::Compress and IO::Uncompress modules:
..
  - Compress-Zlib
  - IO-Compress-Zlib
  - IO-Compress-Bzip2
  - IO-Compress-Base
..
Compress::Zlib is a Perl external module which provides an interface to
the info-zip zlib compression library. zlib is a general purpose
compression library.
..
Some of the features provided by Compress::Zlib include:
..
   * in-memory compression and decompression
   * read and write gzip (.gz) files directly.
..
IO::Compress::Bunzip2 and IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2 provide a Perl interface
that allows transparent reading and writing bzip2 compressed data files or
buffers.
..
IO::Compress::Bases is the base class for all IO::Compress and IO::Uncompress
modules. It is not intended for direct use in application code. Its sole
purpose is to be sub-classed by IO::Compress modules.

Note: This is due to an upstream merge of libio-compress-bzip2-perl,
libcompress-zlib-perl, libio-compress-zlib-perl, and
libio-compress-base-perl.  I am coordinating this upload with the
maintainers of these packages.  The resulting package will probably be
mainained in pkg-perl.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers jaunty-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'jaunty-updates'), (500, 'jaunty-security'), (500, 'jaunty-backports'), (500, 'jaunty')
Architecture: i386 (i686)