Bug#984847: ITP: ppmd -- PPMd compression/decompression library

[Sandro Tosi]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
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Owner: Sandro Tosi <mo...@debian.org>

* Package name : ppmd
Version : 0.3.3
Upstream Author : miu...@linux.com
* URL : https://github.com/miurahr/ppmd
* License : LGPLv2+
Programming Lang: Python
Description : PPMd compression/decompression library

Binary package names: python3-ppmd

PPM(Prediction by partial matching) is a compression algorithm which has
several variations of implementations. PPMd is the implementation by Dmitry
Shkarin. It is used in the RAR and by 7-Zip as one of several possible methods.
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ppmd, aka. ppmd-cffi, is a python bindings with PPMd implementation by C
language. The C codes are derived from p7zip, portable 7-zip implementation.
ppmd-cffi support PPMd ver.H and PPMd ver.I.

this is a new dependency of py7zr