1 gzip (1.3.12-2) unstable; urgency=low
3 * fix typo in gzip fprintf, closes: #426965
4 * revert my zgrep.in patch since upstream handles alternates differently now
6 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:17:37 -0400
8 gzip (1.3.12-1) unstable; urgency=low
10 * new upstream version, closes: #177942, #225864, #362786, #366660, #367400,
11 #383358, #402042, #404099, #404114, #419895
12 * fix delivery of upstream ChangeLog, closes: #404062
14 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:55:42 -0400
16 gzip (1.3.9-2) unstable; urgency=low
18 * change direntry ordering in gzip.texi to work around bug in install-info,
21 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:16:16 -0700
23 gzip (1.3.9-1) unstable; urgency=low
25 * new upstream version, closes: #366660, #403308
26 * clean up a few gratuitous differences from new upstream, leaving
27 only the rsyncable patch and tweaks like zmore always using more
28 * fix spelling error in documentation, closes: #395450
29 * upstream patch for regression uncompressing null input, closes: #403970
31 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:16:36 -0700
33 gzip (1.3.5-15) unstable; urgency=high
35 * security update, covering the following alerts:
36 CVE-2006-4334 CVE-2006-4335 CVE-2006-4336 CVE-2006-4337 CVE-2006-4338
38 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:35:26 -0600
40 gzip (1.3.5-14) unstable; urgency=medium
42 * update section to match override
43 * patch from Matthew Chapman to avoid deleting input file before we're
44 sure the output file has been written without errors, closes: #366660
45 * patch from Reuben Thomas to fix zgrep return code,
46 closes: #292896, #192891, #190442
47 * enable gzexe compressed files to work on systems where tempfile is not
48 available while retaining preference for tempfile, closes: #334540
50 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:02:27 -0600
52 gzip (1.3.5-13) unstable; urgency=low
54 * patch from Reuben Thomas fixes problem passing zgrep filenames starting
55 with dashes, closes: #342501
56 * fix a spelling error in gzip man page, closes: #356011
57 * document the fact that zless doesn't work with stdin,
58 closes: #320226, #345036
60 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 15 Apr 2006 01:31:54 -0600
62 gzip (1.3.5-12) unstable; urgency=low
64 * merge patch from Matt Zimmerman for futex hang due to improper signal
65 handling, closes: #310053, #315612
66 * merge patch to add --rsyncable to the man page, closes: #289616, #295721
67 * don't return failing result code on harmless warning, closes: #169669
69 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:10:51 +0300
71 gzip (1.3.5-11) unstable; urgency=low
73 * patch from Peter Samuelson for bashism in zgrep,
74 closes: #314342, #314211, #312380, #310329
76 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:39:11 -0600
78 gzip (1.3.5-10) unstable; urgency=medium
80 * remove PAGER reference from zmore.1, closes: #263792
81 * patch to improve zgrep argument sanitizing (CAN-2005-0758),
83 * patch isolated by Petter Reinholdtsen for CAN-2005-0988, closes: #303927
84 * patch for dir traversal bug (CAN-2005-1228), closes: #305255
85 * up the priority a click because of the security fixes
86 * patch to support cross building, closes: #283730
88 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 20 May 2005 22:34:49 -0600
90 gzip (1.3.5-9) unstable; urgency=low
92 * eliminate the autoconf and automake build dependencies, since they are
93 no longer needed, closes: #250766
94 * improve temp file usage in gzexe, closes: #257314, #259043
95 * have zmore use 'more' instead of honoring $PAGER, to avoid violating
96 the principle of least astonishment, closes: #234212
97 * fix zgrep choke on filenames including a pipe character, closes: #216211
98 * incorporate watch file, closes: #248722
99 * suggest less, since we provide zless, closes: #217925
100 * use signames instead of signumbers for trap calls, closes: #259284
102 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 24 Jul 2004 01:23:03 -0600
104 gzip (1.3.5-8) unstable; urgency=low
106 * run autoreconf -i to address problem reported with dir.old.gz being
107 included on rebuilds, closes: #249519
108 * change automake build dependency from automake1.7 to automaken
109 * add lintian overrides to squelch the hardlink warnings
110 * fix typo in inflate.c comments, closes: #201881
112 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 23 May 2004 01:07:03 -0600
114 gzip (1.3.5-7) unstable; urgency=low
116 * patch from David Mosberger to incorporate work done by Sverre Jarp on
117 an ia64 version of match.c content.
119 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:45:27 -0600
121 gzip (1.3.5-6) unstable; urgency=medium
123 * patch for insecure temp file usage in znew, closes: #193375
125 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 7 Jun 2003 09:05:11 -0600
127 gzip (1.3.5-5) unstable; urgency=low
129 * apply patch from Anthony Towns that fixes seg faults on alpha during
130 build of Xfree86 at the expense of slightly decreasing the effectiveness
131 of the deflate implementation. closes: #184057, #187417
133 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 16 Apr 2003 11:24:23 -0600
135 gzip (1.3.5-4) unstable; urgency=low
137 * merge patch from Rusty Russell that adds --rsyncable option to gzip.
138 This modifies the output stream to allow rsync to transfer updated .gz
139 files much more effectively. The resulting .gz files should be compatible
140 with the existing gunzip. The plan is that if this works out well for
141 Debian, the functionality will be included in a future upstream gzip
142 release. Closes: #116183, #118118, #134741
144 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 13 Feb 2003 23:50:23 -0700
146 gzip (1.3.5-3) unstable; urgency=low
148 * upload a fresh version so m68k, et al, will rebuild, closes: #167790
150 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 6 Nov 2002 16:13:42 -0700
152 gzip (1.3.5-2) unstable; urgency=low
154 * fix gzexe.in again as per what I did for 1.3.2-3 that accidentally got
155 lost when I merged 1.3.5 from upstream... sigh. Closes: #167150
156 * hack on gzip.texi a little harder to squelch warning at install time from
157 Debian's install-info, closes: #164106
159 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 30 Oct 2002 20:21:42 -0700
161 gzip (1.3.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
163 * new upstream version
164 * fixes a bug in the incorrect-suffix diagnostic, which can lead to a
165 core dump, closes: #152579
166 * removes dangling output symlinks properly, closes: #144759
167 * zless no longer thinks it is zmore in usage message, closes: #121810
168 * zless replaced with a much simpler script, closes: #124097
169 * uses shell pattern matching instead of 'expr', closes: #123295
170 * man page suggests how to use gunzip on zip files, closes: #146019
171 * uses "trap -" to avoid bashism, closes: #140972, #157111
172 * accepts __i386 and __i386__ as synonyms for i386, closes: #152694
173 * fixes printing values greater than 10 * 2**32 bytes, closes: #141189
174 * includes fix for zforce needing -v, closes: #123294
175 * hack gzip.texi so that the Debian install-info doesn't choke on it (grrr),
176 and add texinfo as a build dependency
177 * eliminate things hard-coded in postinst and prerm now handled by debhelper
179 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 9 Oct 2002 09:05:27 -0600
181 gzip (1.3.2-3) unstable; urgency=low
183 * modify gzexe.in to hard-code /bin/gzip instead of trying to use BINDIR
184 which yields /usr/bin/gzip. Don't use PATH since we have no idea what it
185 might be when the gzexe'd executable gets run. Closes: #119641
187 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 14 Nov 2001 23:00:59 -0700
189 gzip (1.3.2-2) unstable; urgency=low
191 * fix silly mistake made when moving man pages from hard to soft links, so
192 man pages for zegrep, zfgrep, and uncompress work again, closes: #118325
194 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Mon, 5 Nov 2001 00:53:40 -0700
196 gzip (1.3.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
198 * new upstream release, incorporating my diffs to 1.3.1
200 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 4 Nov 2001 09:47:40 -0700
202 gzip (1.3.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
204 * add build dependencies on autoconf and automake
205 * fix infodir spec so we install in the build tree, not the system directory
207 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 3 Nov 2001 02:18:06 -0700
209 gzip (1.3.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
211 * new upstream version! From alpha.gnu.org, on the explicit advice of the
212 current upstream maintainers, who are working with Debian to prepare a new
213 stable release that addresses many of the open issues in our BTS.
215 large file support handled in configure, closes: #108612, #83061, #113000
216 it appears the subtle problem with concatenation is fixed, closes: #114591
217 various segfault problems appear fixed, closes: #46312
218 gzip -r issues fixed, closes: #53645, #106186
219 problem with --no-filename option fixed, closes: #59067
220 zgrep -r disallowed - "I did not use the patch as it was not a complete
221 . fix for the problem and I thought it would cause more problems than
222 . it would cure. Instead, I simply disallowed zgrep -r", closes: #81288
223 error message reworded, closes: #76238
224 compression factor output fixed, closes: #80362
225 zgrep -H fixed, closes: #84371
226 permission issue when forced to compress linked file fixed, closes: #88918
227 manpage hardlinks fixed, closes: #94733
228 gzip --help now goes to stdout, closes: #97020
229 zless no longer runs less if file doesn't exist, closes: #109097
230 problem with -best fixed, closes: #17650
231 zgrep now understands --, closes: #28475
232 file size output by gzip fixed for large files, closes: #40721
233 * fix location referenced for GPL on Debian systems, closes: #112095
234 * move install-info remove call from from postrm to prerm
236 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 3 Nov 2001 01:01:02 -0700
238 gzip (1.2.4-33) unstable; urgency=low
240 * update to current policy
242 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 2 Dec 1999 01:10:58 -0700
244 gzip (1.2.4-32) unstable; urgency=low
246 * update prototype for and definition of basename function for compatibility
247 with glibc2.0, still in use on m68k. Closes: #45058
249 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 15 Sep 1999 02:01:47 -0600
251 gzip (1.2.4-31) unstable; urgency=medium
253 * fix problems I induced while merging the upstream patch in the last upload,
254 most notably omitting zless from the package.
255 Closes: #44883, #44885, #44890, #44882, #44887, #44895, #44896
257 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:06:00 -0600
259 gzip (1.2.4-30) unstable; urgency=low
261 * upstream patch, closes: #28872
262 1998-11-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
263 gzip.c (get_method): Don't complain about trailing zeros at
264 the end of a gzipped file, as they're commonly appended to fill
265 out a block (e.g. by GNU tar).
266 * update to FHS compliance
268 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 10 Sep 1999 21:34:07 -0600
270 gzip (1.2.4-29) unstable; urgency=low
272 * apply patch from Vincent Renardias that improves behavior when trying to
273 decompress a corrupted .gz file. Closes 7472, 16385
275 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 27 Jan 1999 20:50:12 -0700
277 gzip (1.2.4-28) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
279 * patch zforce to make it work at all, closes 22760
280 * patch to fix decompression of concatenated gzip files, closes 30537
282 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 22 Jan 1999 10:43:09 -0700
284 gzip (1.2.4-27) frozen unstable; urgency=low
286 * patch from Jean-loup (upstream maintainer) for zgrep.in to fix the
287 problems with -A and -B successfully passing to grep. Closes 21209.
289 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 25 Apr 1998 22:47:15 -0600
291 gzip (1.2.4-26) frozen unstable; urgency=low
293 * fix FSF address in copyright file, lintian now reports no errors
294 * minor tweak to Makefile to fix warnings during dh_installmanpages run
296 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Tue, 24 Mar 1998 00:40:48 -0700
298 gzip (1.2.4-25) frozen unstable; urgency=low
300 * update znew.in and zdiff.in to do save tempfile handling, closes 19794
302 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 21 Mar 1998 23:48:26 -0700
304 gzip (1.2.4-24) unstable; urgency=low
306 * minor fix for complaints about short files, closes 19159
308 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 11 Mar 1998 02:21:50 -0700
310 gzip (1.2.4-23) unstable; urgency=high
312 * respond to security advisory from Alan Cox via Christian Hudon, fixes
313 an obscure possibility to get gzip to execute code
315 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 11 Mar 1998 02:16:59 -0700
317 gzip (1.2.4-22) unstable; urgency=high
319 * gzexe modified to use tempfile in response to security advisory
321 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 31 Jan 1998 14:30:20 -0700
323 gzip (1.2.4-21) unstable; urgency=low
325 * fix from the upstream maintainer for voluminous "Broken Pipe" messages
326 when using 'zgrep -l' or equivalent. Closes bug 15178.
328 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 4 Jan 1998 00:56:21 -0700
330 gzip (1.2.4-20) unstable; urgency=low
332 * freshen rules file to match current debhelper
333 * improve handling of undocumented executables. Closes bug 13578.
335 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 4 Jan 1998 00:56:21 -0700
337 gzip (1.2.4-19) unstable; urgency=low
339 * change dependency to Pre-Depends, to keep dpkg from getting hosed during
340 libc6 upgrades. Closes 15091.
341 * switch from debmake to debhelper. In the process, closes 15412.
343 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Mon, 8 Dec 1997 23:42:49 -0700
345 gzip (1.2.4-18) unstable; urgency=low
347 * don't install INSTALL in the doc directory, closes bug 13224.
349 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 5 Sep 1997 15:06:35 -0600
351 gzip (1.2.4-17) unstable; urgency=low
353 * fix distribution problem in changelog file
355 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 5 Sep 1997 15:06:35 -0600
357 gzip (1.2.4-16) stable frozen unstable; urgency=low
360 * tweaks to rules file to install Changelog, closes bug 12488
362 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 4 Sep 1997 22:46:28 -0600
364 gzip (1.2.4-15) stable frozen unstable; urgency=low
366 * fix minor security issue - race condition reported on bugtraq list
367 * rework debian/rules to build with debugging then strip
369 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 14 Mar 1997 21:14:44 -0700
371 gzip (1.2.4-14) stable frozen unstable; urgency=medium
373 * The -13 upload was built against a libc5 too new for 'stable'.
375 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 28 Nov 1996 11:37:31 -0700
377 gzip (1.2.4-13) stable frozen unstable; urgency=medium
379 * Fix missing "essential" flag on package, lost during standards update.
380 * Push this version back into stable to solve the 'compress' link problem.
382 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Tue, 19 Nov 1996 09:14:14 -0700
384 gzip (1.2.4-12) unstable; urgency=low
388 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 02 Nov 1996 14:47:42 -0800
391 Thu Jul 18 01:30:22 MDT 1996 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
393 * add zegrep and zfgrep links in /usr/bin (Bug#3326)
394 * add an extended description (Bug#3591)
395 * tweak control files to use dpkg-name, etc.
397 Fri May 24 07:37:54 MDT 1996 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
399 * don't provide a 'compress' link since it breaks things, but provide
400 an 'uncompress' link since it's useful.
401 * fix some administrivia
403 Sun Apr 14 20:39:19 MDT 1996 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
405 * change gzexe.in to not use BINDIR, but assume gzip is in PATH
406 * add Architecture field in the control file
408 Wed Jan 17 00:07:00 MST 1996 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
410 * switch targets in the Makefile to also install the links called
411 'compress' and 'uncompress' since some utilities care about these,
412 and we're unlikely to ever have a 'compress' package because of the
413 intellectual property issues.
415 Sat Dec 2 23:45:40 MST 1995 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
418 * add 'zless' as a near-clone of 'zmore', closes bug 1776
419 * unable to duplicate bug 1090, something has improved since then?
420 * add libc5 dependency