Package: par2 Version: 0.4-11 Severity: wishlist Tags: lfs
(Excuse me for my poor English please) Let's imagine the next situation: - par2 has maximum input file size limitation of 32 GB; - user processed 40 GB file with par2; - some of *.par2 files was made incorrectly due to par2 limitations; - par2 did not give any warnings about this problem; - input file and *.par2 files was burned onto BD-R disc; - 50 years passed; - some parts of BD-R was corrupted after 50 years; - user tried to restore information from disk; - surprise: some of *.par2 files are incorrect and information can not be restored. I believe that real situation with limitations is better than given imagination. But there is very important to describe real par2 limitations in documentation. The main things that should be documented first is: - maximum input file size; - what will happen if user will try to process too big file. It is very good that one limitation is documented already in man page: par2 can process not more than 32768 input files. Regards, Sergey -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-bpo.2-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages par2 depends on: ii libc6 2.11.3-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 par2 recommends no packages. par2 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
