Package: libbz2-1.0 Source: bzip2 Version: 1.0.8-6 Architecture: amd64 Maintainer: Anibal Monsalve Salazar Installed-Size: 96 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4) Section: libs Priority: important Multi-Arch: same Homepage: https://sourceware.org/bzip2/ Description: high-quality block-sorting file compressor library - runtime This package contains libbzip2 which is used by the bzip2 compressor. . bzip2 is a freely available, patent free, data compressor. . 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).