Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: наб <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name : snappy-tools Version : 0 Upstream Contact: наб <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz> * URL : https://sr.ht/~nabijaczleweli/snappy-tools * License : 0BSD Programming Lang: C++ Description : Snappy, a fast compressor/decompressor ‒ program The Snappy compression algorithm aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression, suitable for real-time RPC scenarios, but is also used by, i.a., Firefox to compress parts of the profile. This package provides snappy(1) and unsnappy(1), which handle Snappy compression and decompression with and without framing. -- The packaging is (will be, once, I get a bugnum for the ITP) uploaded to https://mentors.debian.net/package/snappy-tools/ and is tracked in git at https://git.sr.ht/~nabijaczleweli/snappy-tools.deb Your Firefox profile contains files compressed with the Snappy framing format, and Snappy is also used for on-the-wire compression (on the web, if rarely, and for other RPCs, like mongodb), as well as a compression option in ceph and rocksdb (default in the latter), so the ability to inspect and produce snappy streams is inherently useful. I do need a sponsor for this, as I am not a DM.
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