1 gzip (1.3.5-14) unstable; urgency=medium
3 * update section to match override
4 * patch from Matthew Chapman to avoid deleting input file before we're
5 sure the output file has been written without errors, closes: #366660
6 * patch from Reuben Thomas to fix zgrep return code,
7 closes: #292896, #192891, #190442
8 * enable gzexe compressed files to work on systems where tempfile is not
9 available while retaining preference for tempfile, closes: #334540
11 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:02:27 -0600
13 gzip (1.3.5-13) unstable; urgency=low
15 * patch from Reuben Thomas fixes problem passing zgrep filenames starting
16 with dashes, closes: #342501
17 * fix a spelling error in gzip man page, closes: #356011
18 * document the fact that zless doesn't work with stdin,
19 closes: #320226, #345036
21 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 15 Apr 2006 01:31:54 -0600
23 gzip (1.3.5-12) unstable; urgency=low
25 * merge patch from Matt Zimmerman for futex hang due to improper signal
26 handling, closes: #310053, #315612
27 * merge patch to add --rsyncable to the man page, closes: #289616, #295721
28 * don't return failing result code on harmless warning, closes: #169669
30 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:10:51 +0300
32 gzip (1.3.5-11) unstable; urgency=low
34 * patch from Peter Samuelson for bashism in zgrep,
35 closes: #314342, #314211, #312380, #310329
37 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:39:11 -0600
39 gzip (1.3.5-10) unstable; urgency=medium
41 * remove PAGER reference from zmore.1, closes: #263792
42 * patch to improve zgrep argument sanitizing (CAN-2005-0758),
44 * patch isolated by Petter Reinholdtsen for CAN-2005-0988, closes: #303927
45 * patch for dir traversal bug (CAN-2005-1228), closes: #305255
46 * up the priority a click because of the security fixes
47 * patch to support cross building, closes: #283730
49 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 20 May 2005 22:34:49 -0600
51 gzip (1.3.5-9) unstable; urgency=low
53 * eliminate the autoconf and automake build dependencies, since they are
54 no longer needed, closes: #250766
55 * improve temp file usage in gzexe, closes: #257314, #259043
56 * have zmore use 'more' instead of honoring $PAGER, to avoid violating
57 the principle of least astonishment, closes: #234212
58 * fix zgrep choke on filenames including a pipe character, closes: #216211
59 * incorporate watch file, closes: #248722
60 * suggest less, since we provide zless, closes: #217925
61 * use signames instead of signumbers for trap calls, closes: #259284
63 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 24 Jul 2004 01:23:03 -0600
65 gzip (1.3.5-8) unstable; urgency=low
67 * run autoreconf -i to address problem reported with dir.old.gz being
68 included on rebuilds, closes: #249519
69 * change automake build dependency from automake1.7 to automaken
70 * add lintian overrides to squelch the hardlink warnings
71 * fix typo in inflate.c comments, closes: #201881
73 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 23 May 2004 01:07:03 -0600
75 gzip (1.3.5-7) unstable; urgency=low
77 * patch from David Mosberger to incorporate work done by Sverre Jarp on
78 an ia64 version of match.c content.
80 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:45:27 -0600
82 gzip (1.3.5-6) unstable; urgency=medium
84 * patch for insecure temp file usage in znew, closes: #193375
86 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 7 Jun 2003 09:05:11 -0600
88 gzip (1.3.5-5) unstable; urgency=low
90 * apply patch from Anthony Towns that fixes seg faults on alpha during
91 build of Xfree86 at the expense of slightly decreasing the effectiveness
92 of the deflate implementation. closes: #184057, #187417
94 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 16 Apr 2003 11:24:23 -0600
96 gzip (1.3.5-4) unstable; urgency=low
98 * merge patch from Rusty Russell that adds --rsyncable option to gzip.
99 This modifies the output stream to allow rsync to transfer updated .gz
100 files much more effectively. The resulting .gz files should be compatible
101 with the existing gunzip. The plan is that if this works out well for
102 Debian, the functionality will be included in a future upstream gzip
103 release. Closes: #116183, #118118, #134741
105 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 13 Feb 2003 23:50:23 -0700
107 gzip (1.3.5-3) unstable; urgency=low
109 * upload a fresh version so m68k, et al, will rebuild, closes: #167790
111 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 6 Nov 2002 16:13:42 -0700
113 gzip (1.3.5-2) unstable; urgency=low
115 * fix gzexe.in again as per what I did for 1.3.2-3 that accidentally got
116 lost when I merged 1.3.5 from upstream... sigh. Closes: #167150
117 * hack on gzip.texi a little harder to squelch warning at install time from
118 Debian's install-info, closes: #164106
120 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 30 Oct 2002 20:21:42 -0700
122 gzip (1.3.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
124 * new upstream version
125 * fixes a bug in the incorrect-suffix diagnostic, which can lead to a
126 core dump, closes: #152579
127 * removes dangling output symlinks properly, closes: #144759
128 * zless no longer thinks it is zmore in usage message, closes: #121810
129 * zless replaced with a much simpler script, closes: #124097
130 * uses shell pattern matching instead of 'expr', closes: #123295
131 * man page suggests how to use gunzip on zip files, closes: #146019
132 * uses "trap -" to avoid bashism, closes: #140972, #157111
133 * accepts __i386 and __i386__ as synonyms for i386, closes: #152694
134 * fixes printing values greater than 10 * 2**32 bytes, closes: #141189
135 * includes fix for zforce needing -v, closes: #123294
136 * hack gzip.texi so that the Debian install-info doesn't choke on it (grrr),
137 and add texinfo as a build dependency
138 * eliminate things hard-coded in postinst and prerm now handled by debhelper
140 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 9 Oct 2002 09:05:27 -0600
142 gzip (1.3.2-3) unstable; urgency=low
144 * modify gzexe.in to hard-code /bin/gzip instead of trying to use BINDIR
145 which yields /usr/bin/gzip. Don't use PATH since we have no idea what it
146 might be when the gzexe'd executable gets run. Closes: #119641
148 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 14 Nov 2001 23:00:59 -0700
150 gzip (1.3.2-2) unstable; urgency=low
152 * fix silly mistake made when moving man pages from hard to soft links, so
153 man pages for zegrep, zfgrep, and uncompress work again, closes: #118325
155 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Mon, 5 Nov 2001 00:53:40 -0700
157 gzip (1.3.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
159 * new upstream release, incorporating my diffs to 1.3.1
161 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 4 Nov 2001 09:47:40 -0700
163 gzip (1.3.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
165 * add build dependencies on autoconf and automake
166 * fix infodir spec so we install in the build tree, not the system directory
168 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 3 Nov 2001 02:18:06 -0700
170 gzip (1.3.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
172 * new upstream version! From alpha.gnu.org, on the explicit advice of the
173 current upstream maintainers, who are working with Debian to prepare a new
174 stable release that addresses many of the open issues in our BTS.
176 large file support handled in configure, closes: #108612, #83061, #113000
177 it appears the subtle problem with concatenation is fixed, closes: #114591
178 various segfault problems appear fixed, closes: #46312
179 gzip -r issues fixed, closes: #53645, #106186
180 problem with --no-filename option fixed, closes: #59067
181 zgrep -r disallowed - "I did not use the patch as it was not a complete
182 . fix for the problem and I thought it would cause more problems than
183 . it would cure. Instead, I simply disallowed zgrep -r", closes: #81288
184 error message reworded, closes: #76238
185 compression factor output fixed, closes: #80362
186 zgrep -H fixed, closes: #84371
187 permission issue when forced to compress linked file fixed, closes: #88918
188 manpage hardlinks fixed, closes: #94733
189 gzip --help now goes to stdout, closes: #97020
190 zless no longer runs less if file doesn't exist, closes: #109097
191 problem with -best fixed, closes: #17650
192 zgrep now understands --, closes: #28475
193 file size output by gzip fixed for large files, closes: #40721
194 * fix location referenced for GPL on Debian systems, closes: #112095
195 * move install-info remove call from from postrm to prerm
197 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 3 Nov 2001 01:01:02 -0700
199 gzip (1.2.4-33) unstable; urgency=low
201 * update to current policy
203 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 2 Dec 1999 01:10:58 -0700
205 gzip (1.2.4-32) unstable; urgency=low
207 * update prototype for and definition of basename function for compatibility
208 with glibc2.0, still in use on m68k. Closes: #45058
210 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 15 Sep 1999 02:01:47 -0600
212 gzip (1.2.4-31) unstable; urgency=medium
214 * fix problems I induced while merging the upstream patch in the last upload,
215 most notably omitting zless from the package.
216 Closes: #44883, #44885, #44890, #44882, #44887, #44895, #44896
218 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:06:00 -0600
220 gzip (1.2.4-30) unstable; urgency=low
222 * upstream patch, closes: #28872
223 1998-11-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
224 gzip.c (get_method): Don't complain about trailing zeros at
225 the end of a gzipped file, as they're commonly appended to fill
226 out a block (e.g. by GNU tar).
227 * update to FHS compliance
229 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 10 Sep 1999 21:34:07 -0600
231 gzip (1.2.4-29) unstable; urgency=low
233 * apply patch from Vincent Renardias that improves behavior when trying to
234 decompress a corrupted .gz file. Closes 7472, 16385
236 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 27 Jan 1999 20:50:12 -0700
238 gzip (1.2.4-28) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
240 * patch zforce to make it work at all, closes 22760
241 * patch to fix decompression of concatenated gzip files, closes 30537
243 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 22 Jan 1999 10:43:09 -0700
245 gzip (1.2.4-27) frozen unstable; urgency=low
247 * patch from Jean-loup (upstream maintainer) for zgrep.in to fix the
248 problems with -A and -B successfully passing to grep. Closes 21209.
250 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 25 Apr 1998 22:47:15 -0600
252 gzip (1.2.4-26) frozen unstable; urgency=low
254 * fix FSF address in copyright file, lintian now reports no errors
255 * minor tweak to Makefile to fix warnings during dh_installmanpages run
257 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Tue, 24 Mar 1998 00:40:48 -0700
259 gzip (1.2.4-25) frozen unstable; urgency=low
261 * update znew.in and zdiff.in to do save tempfile handling, closes 19794
263 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 21 Mar 1998 23:48:26 -0700
265 gzip (1.2.4-24) unstable; urgency=low
267 * minor fix for complaints about short files, closes 19159
269 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 11 Mar 1998 02:21:50 -0700
271 gzip (1.2.4-23) unstable; urgency=high
273 * respond to security advisory from Alan Cox via Christian Hudon, fixes
274 an obscure possibility to get gzip to execute code
276 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 11 Mar 1998 02:16:59 -0700
278 gzip (1.2.4-22) unstable; urgency=high
280 * gzexe modified to use tempfile in response to security advisory
282 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 31 Jan 1998 14:30:20 -0700
284 gzip (1.2.4-21) unstable; urgency=low
286 * fix from the upstream maintainer for voluminous "Broken Pipe" messages
287 when using 'zgrep -l' or equivalent. Closes bug 15178.
289 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 4 Jan 1998 00:56:21 -0700
291 gzip (1.2.4-20) unstable; urgency=low
293 * freshen rules file to match current debhelper
294 * improve handling of undocumented executables. Closes bug 13578.
296 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 4 Jan 1998 00:56:21 -0700
298 gzip (1.2.4-19) unstable; urgency=low
300 * change dependency to Pre-Depends, to keep dpkg from getting hosed during
301 libc6 upgrades. Closes 15091.
302 * switch from debmake to debhelper. In the process, closes 15412.
304 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Mon, 8 Dec 1997 23:42:49 -0700
306 gzip (1.2.4-18) unstable; urgency=low
308 * don't install INSTALL in the doc directory, closes bug 13224.
310 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 5 Sep 1997 15:06:35 -0600
312 gzip (1.2.4-17) unstable; urgency=low
314 * fix distribution problem in changelog file
316 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 5 Sep 1997 15:06:35 -0600
318 gzip (1.2.4-16) stable frozen unstable; urgency=low
321 * tweaks to rules file to install Changelog, closes bug 12488
323 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 4 Sep 1997 22:46:28 -0600
325 gzip (1.2.4-15) stable frozen unstable; urgency=low
327 * fix minor security issue - race condition reported on bugtraq list
328 * rework debian/rules to build with debugging then strip
330 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 14 Mar 1997 21:14:44 -0700
332 gzip (1.2.4-14) stable frozen unstable; urgency=medium
334 * The -13 upload was built against a libc5 too new for 'stable'.
336 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 28 Nov 1996 11:37:31 -0700
338 gzip (1.2.4-13) stable frozen unstable; urgency=medium
340 * Fix missing "essential" flag on package, lost during standards update.
341 * Push this version back into stable to solve the 'compress' link problem.
343 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Tue, 19 Nov 1996 09:14:14 -0700
345 gzip (1.2.4-12) unstable; urgency=low
349 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 02 Nov 1996 14:47:42 -0800
352 Thu Jul 18 01:30:22 MDT 1996 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
354 * add zegrep and zfgrep links in /usr/bin (Bug#3326)
355 * add an extended description (Bug#3591)
356 * tweak control files to use dpkg-name, etc.
358 Fri May 24 07:37:54 MDT 1996 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
360 * don't provide a 'compress' link since it breaks things, but provide
361 an 'uncompress' link since it's useful.
362 * fix some administrivia
364 Sun Apr 14 20:39:19 MDT 1996 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
366 * change gzexe.in to not use BINDIR, but assume gzip is in PATH
367 * add Architecture field in the control file
369 Wed Jan 17 00:07:00 MST 1996 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
371 * switch targets in the Makefile to also install the links called
372 'compress' and 'uncompress' since some utilities care about these,
373 and we're unlikely to ever have a 'compress' package because of the
374 intellectual property issues.
376 Sat Dec 2 23:45:40 MST 1995 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
379 * add 'zless' as a near-clone of 'zmore', closes bug 1776
380 * unable to duplicate bug 1090, something has improved since then?
381 * add libc5 dependency