Source: bzip2
Section: user/tools
Priority: important
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>
Uploaders: Andrew Zabolotny <zap@homelink.ru>
Standards-Version: 3.7.3
Homepage: http://www.bzip.org/
Build-Depends: sharutils

Package: bzip2
Priority: optional
Section: user/tools
Architecture: any
Depends: libbz2-1.0, shared-mime-info
Replaces: libbz2 (<<0.9.5d-3)
Description: high-quality block-sorting file compressor - utilities
 bzip2 is a freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor. 
 It typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available
 techniques, whilst being around twice as fast at compression and six
 times faster at decompression.
 .
 bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block-sorting text
 compression algorithm, and Huffman coding.  Compression is generally
 considerably better than that achieved by more conventional
 LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM
 family of statistical compressors.
 .
 The archive file format of bzip2 (.bz2) is incompatible with that of its
 predecessor, bzip (.bz).
