On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 06:52:50PM +0100, Robert Lemmen wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name : zsync > Version : 0.0.4 > Upstream Author : Colin Phipps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://zsync.moria.org.uk/ > * License : GPLv2 > Description : A client-side implementation of the rsync algorithm > > This package allows updating of files from a remote web server without > requiring a full download or a special remote server application. > > the description will be a bit more elaborate, talking it over with > upstream. there will also be a libzsync and a libzsync-dev package to > use it in other programs (apt for example ;)
Sounds promising! One suggestion, this package is claimed to be only alpha by upsteam. It also at the moment copies several C files from zlib and rsync, in stead of linking to it as library. This poses a security support risk: this package would need to get patched on rsync or zlib security updates too, something that wouldn't be needed if you dynamically linked to it. Rsync comes with a stand alone program to create some kind of index files, isn't this also in some way usable for zsync? Anyway, since the author says it's alpha, maybe it's a good idea to upload to experimal only while it still matures -- the program didn't exist at all yet a month ago. While it works, I don't think zsyncr has already a place in a Debian stable release. Keep up the good work! --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl
