Bug#378112: ITP: gzrt -- gzip recovery toolkit

2007-06-02 Thread Bart Martens
Hi Paul, About your "intent to package": http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=378112 http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gzrt/ Have you noticed that there's a newer upstream release ? http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/hacking/gzrt/ Regards, Bart Martens signature.asc Desc

Bug#378112: Depends vs. Recommends (Was: Bug#378112: ITP: gzrt -- gzip recovery toolkit)

2006-07-17 Thread Jens Peter Secher
Adam Borowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 10:11:41AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: >> >> I agree that that is a common type of file to recover, so that would >> make it more appropriate to Recommend cpio rather than Suggest. > > "a common type"? Come on, that's not just

Bug#378112: Depends vs. Recommends (Was: Bug#378112: ITP: gzrt -- gzip recovery toolkit)

2006-07-17 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Jens Peter Secher cites Policy: > The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is > required for the depending package to provide a significant > amount of functionality. It has been (somewhat convincingly) argued that repairing broken tar.gz is "a significan

Bug#378112: ITP: gzrt -- gzip recovery toolkit

2006-07-16 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 10:11:41AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 13:14 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > I will drop the version from the description and add cpio to the > > suggests. > > > > I added the suggestion to the description because I guess that .tar.gz > > will be the

Bug#378112: ITP: gzrt -- gzip recovery toolkit

2006-07-16 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 13:14 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 19:35 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > > Please install cpio 2.5 or higher to facilitate recovery from damaged > > gzipped tarballs. > > I will drop the version from the description and add cpio to the > suggests. > > I adde

Bug#378112: ITP: gzrt -- gzip recovery toolkit

2006-07-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 19:35 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Please install cpio 2.5 or higher to facilitate recovery from damaged > gzipped tarballs. I will drop the version from the description and add cpio to the suggests. I added the suggestion to the description because I guess that .tar.gz will

Bug#378112: ITP: gzrt -- gzip recovery toolkit

2006-07-13 Thread Paul Wise
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gzrt Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Aaron M. Renn * URL : http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/hacking/gzrt/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : gzip recover