1 gzip (1.3.9-1) unstable; urgency=low
3 * new upstream version, closes: #366660, #403308
4 * clean up a few gratuitous differences from new upstream, leaving
5 only the rsyncable patch and tweaks like zmore always using more
6 * fix spelling error in documentation, closes: #395450
7 * upstream patch for regression uncompressing null input, closes: #403970
9 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:16:36 -0700
11 gzip (1.3.5-15) unstable; urgency=high
13 * security update, covering the following alerts:
14 CVE-2006-4334 CVE-2006-4335 CVE-2006-4336 CVE-2006-4337 CVE-2006-4338
16 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:35:26 -0600
18 gzip (1.3.5-14) unstable; urgency=medium
20 * update section to match override
21 * patch from Matthew Chapman to avoid deleting input file before we're
22 sure the output file has been written without errors, closes: #366660
23 * patch from Reuben Thomas to fix zgrep return code,
24 closes: #292896, #192891, #190442
25 * enable gzexe compressed files to work on systems where tempfile is not
26 available while retaining preference for tempfile, closes: #334540
28 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:02:27 -0600
30 gzip (1.3.5-13) unstable; urgency=low
32 * patch from Reuben Thomas fixes problem passing zgrep filenames starting
33 with dashes, closes: #342501
34 * fix a spelling error in gzip man page, closes: #356011
35 * document the fact that zless doesn't work with stdin,
36 closes: #320226, #345036
38 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 15 Apr 2006 01:31:54 -0600
40 gzip (1.3.5-12) unstable; urgency=low
42 * merge patch from Matt Zimmerman for futex hang due to improper signal
43 handling, closes: #310053, #315612
44 * merge patch to add --rsyncable to the man page, closes: #289616, #295721
45 * don't return failing result code on harmless warning, closes: #169669
47 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:10:51 +0300
49 gzip (1.3.5-11) unstable; urgency=low
51 * patch from Peter Samuelson for bashism in zgrep,
52 closes: #314342, #314211, #312380, #310329
54 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:39:11 -0600
56 gzip (1.3.5-10) unstable; urgency=medium
58 * remove PAGER reference from zmore.1, closes: #263792
59 * patch to improve zgrep argument sanitizing (CAN-2005-0758),
61 * patch isolated by Petter Reinholdtsen for CAN-2005-0988, closes: #303927
62 * patch for dir traversal bug (CAN-2005-1228), closes: #305255
63 * up the priority a click because of the security fixes
64 * patch to support cross building, closes: #283730
66 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 20 May 2005 22:34:49 -0600
68 gzip (1.3.5-9) unstable; urgency=low
70 * eliminate the autoconf and automake build dependencies, since they are
71 no longer needed, closes: #250766
72 * improve temp file usage in gzexe, closes: #257314, #259043
73 * have zmore use 'more' instead of honoring $PAGER, to avoid violating
74 the principle of least astonishment, closes: #234212
75 * fix zgrep choke on filenames including a pipe character, closes: #216211
76 * incorporate watch file, closes: #248722
77 * suggest less, since we provide zless, closes: #217925
78 * use signames instead of signumbers for trap calls, closes: #259284
80 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 24 Jul 2004 01:23:03 -0600
82 gzip (1.3.5-8) unstable; urgency=low
84 * run autoreconf -i to address problem reported with dir.old.gz being
85 included on rebuilds, closes: #249519
86 * change automake build dependency from automake1.7 to automaken
87 * add lintian overrides to squelch the hardlink warnings
88 * fix typo in inflate.c comments, closes: #201881
90 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 23 May 2004 01:07:03 -0600
92 gzip (1.3.5-7) unstable; urgency=low
94 * patch from David Mosberger to incorporate work done by Sverre Jarp on
95 an ia64 version of match.c content.
97 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:45:27 -0600
99 gzip (1.3.5-6) unstable; urgency=medium
101 * patch for insecure temp file usage in znew, closes: #193375
103 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 7 Jun 2003 09:05:11 -0600
105 gzip (1.3.5-5) unstable; urgency=low
107 * apply patch from Anthony Towns that fixes seg faults on alpha during
108 build of Xfree86 at the expense of slightly decreasing the effectiveness
109 of the deflate implementation. closes: #184057, #187417
111 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 16 Apr 2003 11:24:23 -0600
113 gzip (1.3.5-4) unstable; urgency=low
115 * merge patch from Rusty Russell that adds --rsyncable option to gzip.
116 This modifies the output stream to allow rsync to transfer updated .gz
117 files much more effectively. The resulting .gz files should be compatible
118 with the existing gunzip. The plan is that if this works out well for
119 Debian, the functionality will be included in a future upstream gzip
120 release. Closes: #116183, #118118, #134741
122 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 13 Feb 2003 23:50:23 -0700
124 gzip (1.3.5-3) unstable; urgency=low
126 * upload a fresh version so m68k, et al, will rebuild, closes: #167790
128 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 6 Nov 2002 16:13:42 -0700
130 gzip (1.3.5-2) unstable; urgency=low
132 * fix gzexe.in again as per what I did for 1.3.2-3 that accidentally got
133 lost when I merged 1.3.5 from upstream... sigh. Closes: #167150
134 * hack on gzip.texi a little harder to squelch warning at install time from
135 Debian's install-info, closes: #164106
137 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 30 Oct 2002 20:21:42 -0700
139 gzip (1.3.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
141 * new upstream version
142 * fixes a bug in the incorrect-suffix diagnostic, which can lead to a
143 core dump, closes: #152579
144 * removes dangling output symlinks properly, closes: #144759
145 * zless no longer thinks it is zmore in usage message, closes: #121810
146 * zless replaced with a much simpler script, closes: #124097
147 * uses shell pattern matching instead of 'expr', closes: #123295
148 * man page suggests how to use gunzip on zip files, closes: #146019
149 * uses "trap -" to avoid bashism, closes: #140972, #157111
150 * accepts __i386 and __i386__ as synonyms for i386, closes: #152694
151 * fixes printing values greater than 10 * 2**32 bytes, closes: #141189
152 * includes fix for zforce needing -v, closes: #123294
153 * hack gzip.texi so that the Debian install-info doesn't choke on it (grrr),
154 and add texinfo as a build dependency
155 * eliminate things hard-coded in postinst and prerm now handled by debhelper
157 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 9 Oct 2002 09:05:27 -0600
159 gzip (1.3.2-3) unstable; urgency=low
161 * modify gzexe.in to hard-code /bin/gzip instead of trying to use BINDIR
162 which yields /usr/bin/gzip. Don't use PATH since we have no idea what it
163 might be when the gzexe'd executable gets run. Closes: #119641
165 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 14 Nov 2001 23:00:59 -0700
167 gzip (1.3.2-2) unstable; urgency=low
169 * fix silly mistake made when moving man pages from hard to soft links, so
170 man pages for zegrep, zfgrep, and uncompress work again, closes: #118325
172 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Mon, 5 Nov 2001 00:53:40 -0700
174 gzip (1.3.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
176 * new upstream release, incorporating my diffs to 1.3.1
178 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 4 Nov 2001 09:47:40 -0700
180 gzip (1.3.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
182 * add build dependencies on autoconf and automake
183 * fix infodir spec so we install in the build tree, not the system directory
185 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 3 Nov 2001 02:18:06 -0700
187 gzip (1.3.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
189 * new upstream version! From alpha.gnu.org, on the explicit advice of the
190 current upstream maintainers, who are working with Debian to prepare a new
191 stable release that addresses many of the open issues in our BTS.
193 large file support handled in configure, closes: #108612, #83061, #113000
194 it appears the subtle problem with concatenation is fixed, closes: #114591
195 various segfault problems appear fixed, closes: #46312
196 gzip -r issues fixed, closes: #53645, #106186
197 problem with --no-filename option fixed, closes: #59067
198 zgrep -r disallowed - "I did not use the patch as it was not a complete
199 . fix for the problem and I thought it would cause more problems than
200 . it would cure. Instead, I simply disallowed zgrep -r", closes: #81288
201 error message reworded, closes: #76238
202 compression factor output fixed, closes: #80362
203 zgrep -H fixed, closes: #84371
204 permission issue when forced to compress linked file fixed, closes: #88918
205 manpage hardlinks fixed, closes: #94733
206 gzip --help now goes to stdout, closes: #97020
207 zless no longer runs less if file doesn't exist, closes: #109097
208 problem with -best fixed, closes: #17650
209 zgrep now understands --, closes: #28475
210 file size output by gzip fixed for large files, closes: #40721
211 * fix location referenced for GPL on Debian systems, closes: #112095
212 * move install-info remove call from from postrm to prerm
214 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 3 Nov 2001 01:01:02 -0700
216 gzip (1.2.4-33) unstable; urgency=low
218 * update to current policy
220 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 2 Dec 1999 01:10:58 -0700
222 gzip (1.2.4-32) unstable; urgency=low
224 * update prototype for and definition of basename function for compatibility
225 with glibc2.0, still in use on m68k. Closes: #45058
227 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 15 Sep 1999 02:01:47 -0600
229 gzip (1.2.4-31) unstable; urgency=medium
231 * fix problems I induced while merging the upstream patch in the last upload,
232 most notably omitting zless from the package.
233 Closes: #44883, #44885, #44890, #44882, #44887, #44895, #44896
235 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:06:00 -0600
237 gzip (1.2.4-30) unstable; urgency=low
239 * upstream patch, closes: #28872
240 1998-11-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
241 gzip.c (get_method): Don't complain about trailing zeros at
242 the end of a gzipped file, as they're commonly appended to fill
243 out a block (e.g. by GNU tar).
244 * update to FHS compliance
246 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 10 Sep 1999 21:34:07 -0600
248 gzip (1.2.4-29) unstable; urgency=low
250 * apply patch from Vincent Renardias that improves behavior when trying to
251 decompress a corrupted .gz file. Closes 7472, 16385
253 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 27 Jan 1999 20:50:12 -0700
255 gzip (1.2.4-28) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
257 * patch zforce to make it work at all, closes 22760
258 * patch to fix decompression of concatenated gzip files, closes 30537
260 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 22 Jan 1999 10:43:09 -0700
262 gzip (1.2.4-27) frozen unstable; urgency=low
264 * patch from Jean-loup (upstream maintainer) for zgrep.in to fix the
265 problems with -A and -B successfully passing to grep. Closes 21209.
267 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 25 Apr 1998 22:47:15 -0600
269 gzip (1.2.4-26) frozen unstable; urgency=low
271 * fix FSF address in copyright file, lintian now reports no errors
272 * minor tweak to Makefile to fix warnings during dh_installmanpages run
274 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Tue, 24 Mar 1998 00:40:48 -0700
276 gzip (1.2.4-25) frozen unstable; urgency=low
278 * update znew.in and zdiff.in to do save tempfile handling, closes 19794
280 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 21 Mar 1998 23:48:26 -0700
282 gzip (1.2.4-24) unstable; urgency=low
284 * minor fix for complaints about short files, closes 19159
286 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 11 Mar 1998 02:21:50 -0700
288 gzip (1.2.4-23) unstable; urgency=high
290 * respond to security advisory from Alan Cox via Christian Hudon, fixes
291 an obscure possibility to get gzip to execute code
293 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 11 Mar 1998 02:16:59 -0700
295 gzip (1.2.4-22) unstable; urgency=high
297 * gzexe modified to use tempfile in response to security advisory
299 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 31 Jan 1998 14:30:20 -0700
301 gzip (1.2.4-21) unstable; urgency=low
303 * fix from the upstream maintainer for voluminous "Broken Pipe" messages
304 when using 'zgrep -l' or equivalent. Closes bug 15178.
306 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 4 Jan 1998 00:56:21 -0700
308 gzip (1.2.4-20) unstable; urgency=low
310 * freshen rules file to match current debhelper
311 * improve handling of undocumented executables. Closes bug 13578.
313 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 4 Jan 1998 00:56:21 -0700
315 gzip (1.2.4-19) unstable; urgency=low
317 * change dependency to Pre-Depends, to keep dpkg from getting hosed during
318 libc6 upgrades. Closes 15091.
319 * switch from debmake to debhelper. In the process, closes 15412.
321 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Mon, 8 Dec 1997 23:42:49 -0700
323 gzip (1.2.4-18) unstable; urgency=low
325 * don't install INSTALL in the doc directory, closes bug 13224.
327 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 5 Sep 1997 15:06:35 -0600
329 gzip (1.2.4-17) unstable; urgency=low
331 * fix distribution problem in changelog file
333 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 5 Sep 1997 15:06:35 -0600
335 gzip (1.2.4-16) stable frozen unstable; urgency=low
338 * tweaks to rules file to install Changelog, closes bug 12488
340 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 4 Sep 1997 22:46:28 -0600
342 gzip (1.2.4-15) stable frozen unstable; urgency=low
344 * fix minor security issue - race condition reported on bugtraq list
345 * rework debian/rules to build with debugging then strip
347 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 14 Mar 1997 21:14:44 -0700
349 gzip (1.2.4-14) stable frozen unstable; urgency=medium
351 * The -13 upload was built against a libc5 too new for 'stable'.
353 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 28 Nov 1996 11:37:31 -0700
355 gzip (1.2.4-13) stable frozen unstable; urgency=medium
357 * Fix missing "essential" flag on package, lost during standards update.
358 * Push this version back into stable to solve the 'compress' link problem.
360 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Tue, 19 Nov 1996 09:14:14 -0700
362 gzip (1.2.4-12) unstable; urgency=low
366 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 02 Nov 1996 14:47:42 -0800
369 Thu Jul 18 01:30:22 MDT 1996 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
371 * add zegrep and zfgrep links in /usr/bin (Bug#3326)
372 * add an extended description (Bug#3591)
373 * tweak control files to use dpkg-name, etc.
375 Fri May 24 07:37:54 MDT 1996 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
377 * don't provide a 'compress' link since it breaks things, but provide
378 an 'uncompress' link since it's useful.
379 * fix some administrivia
381 Sun Apr 14 20:39:19 MDT 1996 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
383 * change gzexe.in to not use BINDIR, but assume gzip is in PATH
384 * add Architecture field in the control file
386 Wed Jan 17 00:07:00 MST 1996 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
388 * switch targets in the Makefile to also install the links called
389 'compress' and 'uncompress' since some utilities care about these,
390 and we're unlikely to ever have a 'compress' package because of the
391 intellectual property issues.
393 Sat Dec 2 23:45:40 MST 1995 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
396 * add 'zless' as a near-clone of 'zmore', closes bug 1776
397 * unable to duplicate bug 1090, something has improved since then?
398 * add libc5 dependency