libarchive-devel contains the header files for developing applications that want to make use of libarchive.
acquired package info from repodata DB: repodata/d96f7206249b192484cd473c7213938a2173442406260d9a32d8f941053a6c53-primary.sqlite.bz2
Multi-format archive and compression library
libarchive is an open-source BSD-licensed C programming library that provides streaming access to a variety of different archive formats, including tar, cpio, pax, zip, and ISO9660 images. The distribution also includes bsdtar and bsdcpio, full-featured implementations of tar and cpio that use libarchive.