[GTG] Re: [ITP] p7zip-4.57-1

[Dr. Volker Zell]

>>>>> Charles Wilson writes:

    > This is actually a re-ITP. I posted p7zip-4.47-1 last year
    >   http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2007-06/msg00046.html
    > but it kinda died without a yes/no after some issues with using
    > non-standard cygport mods, so nobody could give it a GTG.

    > Contrary to my message here:
    >   http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2008-03/msg00101.html
    > it was NOT an issue with votes -- because p7zip is a normal component
    > of the Debian distribution, so needs no votes.  Just a GTG -- which it
    > didn't get last year.

    > So, having been reminded of this issue by the message earlier today, I
    > updated my local build -- using *standard* features of the new
    > cygport-3.8.  It still has the rather odd structure imposed by the
    > upstream folks:

    > == /usr/bin/7z ==
    > #! /bin/sh
    > /usr/lib/p7zip/7z "$@"

    > etc, but the other issues mentioned
    > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2007-06/msg00048.html
    > have been fixed.

    > http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/p7zip-4.57-1.tar.bz2
    > http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/p7zip-4.57-1-src.tar.bz2

    > ===== setup.hint =====
    > category: Archive
    > requires: cygwin
    > sdesc: "A file archiver with very high compression ratios."
    > ldesc: "p7zip is the Unix port of 7-Zip, a file archiver that
    > archives with very high compression ratios.  It supports
    > packing/unpacking 7z, zip, gzip bzip2, and tar archives.  It supports
    > unpacking of cab, iso, arj, lzh, chm, z, cpio, rpm, deb, and nsis
    > archives.  This version does NOT support rar archives."
    > ===== setup.hint =====

Builds fine from source, packaging and setup.hint look good except you
should maybe add bash to requires.

GTG
  Volker