Bug#725712: ITP: tarix -- Indexing utility for tar archives

[Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es>]

Stanislav Maslovski writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 09:55:30AM +0200, Alberto Luaces wrote:
>> Stanislav Maslovski writes:
>> 
>> > * URL             : https://github.com/fastcat/tarix; http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtar/
>> 
>> The Sourceforge URL says that "Tarix has moved to github", so I don't
>> think that link is relevant anymore.
>
> Yes, I am aware of it. I mentioned both these links mostly for
> completeness (e.g., someone could have downloaded this software from
> Sourceforge before).
>
> Are you interested in this software? I was doing some more tests with
> this utility and I think I have found a bug in it. By any chance, have
> you used it with large tar archives (~200 GB)?

The software seems pretty interesting, but I haven't heard of it until
your ITP, sorry.  I would also like to have it in the repositories,
nevertheless.

-- 
Alberto