Bug#702029: ITP: patool -- portable archive file manager for the commandline console

[Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org>

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

* Package name    : patool
  Version         : 1.0
  Upstream Author : Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org>
* URL             : http://wummel.github.com/patool/
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : portable archive file manager for the commandline console

Various archive formats can be created, extracted, tested, listed,
searched, compared and repacked by patool. The advantage of patool
is its simplicity in handling archive files without having to remember
a myriad of programs and options.

The archive format is determined by the file(1) program and as a
fallback by the archive file extension.

patool supports 7z (.7z), ACE (.ace), ADF (.adf), ALZIP (.alz), APE (.ape),
AR (.a), ARC (.arc), ARJ (.arj), BZIP2 (.bz2),
CAB (.cab), compress (.Z), CPIO (.cpio),
DEB (.deb), DMS (.dms), FLAC (.flac), GZIP (.gz), ISO (.iso), LRZIP (.lrz),
LZH (.lha, .lzh), LZIP (.lz), LZMA (.lzma), LZOP (.lzo), RPM (.rpm),
RAR (.rar), RZIP (.rz), SHN (.shn), TAR (.tar), XZ (.xz), ZIP (.zip, .jar)
and ZOO (.zoo) formats.
It relies on helper applications to handle those archive formats
(for example bzip2 for BZIP2 archives).

The archive formats TAR (.tar), ZIP (.zip), BZIP2 (.bz2) and GZIP (.gz)
are supported natively and do not require helper applications to be
installed.


[Note]
The package is inspired by the "atool" package. The advantages over atool
are:
- - Support for a lot more formats
- - Support for repacking
- - Support for comparing two archives
- - Support for searching in archives

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux)

iEYEARECAAYFAlExEgMACgkQeBwlBDLsbz5PkgCfRyCRJqrnE/kvlTUO2jtEe3Qw
2nUAn3bq8URVRLYsQTLVACP6aM4Mf5Pp
=ASwk
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----