1 gzip (1.3.12-3.1) unstable; urgency=medium
3 * Non-maintainer upload.
4 * Rename futimens to gz_futimens, since glibc now defines an futimens
5 function with a different prototype. Closes: #433845.
6 * Urgency medium for the RC bug fix.
8 -- Daniel Schepler <schepler@debian.org> Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:11:52 -0400
10 gzip (1.3.12-3) unstable; urgency=low
12 * fix bindir so gunzip, et al, work again, closes: #429462
14 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:08:59 +0100
16 gzip (1.3.12-2) unstable; urgency=low
18 * fix typo in gzip fprintf, closes: #426965
19 * revert my zgrep.in patch since upstream handles alternates differently now
21 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:17:37 -0400
23 gzip (1.3.12-1) unstable; urgency=low
25 * new upstream version, closes: #177942, #225864, #362786, #366660, #367400,
26 #383358, #402042, #404099, #404114, #419895
27 * fix delivery of upstream ChangeLog, closes: #404062
29 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:55:42 -0400
31 gzip (1.3.9-2) unstable; urgency=low
33 * change direntry ordering in gzip.texi to work around bug in install-info,
36 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:16:16 -0700
38 gzip (1.3.9-1) unstable; urgency=low
40 * new upstream version, closes: #366660, #403308
41 * clean up a few gratuitous differences from new upstream, leaving
42 only the rsyncable patch and tweaks like zmore always using more
43 * fix spelling error in documentation, closes: #395450
44 * upstream patch for regression uncompressing null input, closes: #403970
46 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:16:36 -0700
48 gzip (1.3.5-15) unstable; urgency=high
50 * security update, covering the following alerts:
51 CVE-2006-4334 CVE-2006-4335 CVE-2006-4336 CVE-2006-4337 CVE-2006-4338
53 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:35:26 -0600
55 gzip (1.3.5-14) unstable; urgency=medium
57 * update section to match override
58 * patch from Matthew Chapman to avoid deleting input file before we're
59 sure the output file has been written without errors, closes: #366660
60 * patch from Reuben Thomas to fix zgrep return code,
61 closes: #292896, #192891, #190442
62 * enable gzexe compressed files to work on systems where tempfile is not
63 available while retaining preference for tempfile, closes: #334540
65 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:02:27 -0600
67 gzip (1.3.5-13) unstable; urgency=low
69 * patch from Reuben Thomas fixes problem passing zgrep filenames starting
70 with dashes, closes: #342501
71 * fix a spelling error in gzip man page, closes: #356011
72 * document the fact that zless doesn't work with stdin,
73 closes: #320226, #345036
75 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 15 Apr 2006 01:31:54 -0600
77 gzip (1.3.5-12) unstable; urgency=low
79 * merge patch from Matt Zimmerman for futex hang due to improper signal
80 handling, closes: #310053, #315612
81 * merge patch to add --rsyncable to the man page, closes: #289616, #295721
82 * don't return failing result code on harmless warning, closes: #169669
84 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:10:51 +0300
86 gzip (1.3.5-11) unstable; urgency=low
88 * patch from Peter Samuelson for bashism in zgrep,
89 closes: #314342, #314211, #312380, #310329
91 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:39:11 -0600
93 gzip (1.3.5-10) unstable; urgency=medium
95 * remove PAGER reference from zmore.1, closes: #263792
96 * patch to improve zgrep argument sanitizing (CAN-2005-0758),
98 * patch isolated by Petter Reinholdtsen for CAN-2005-0988, closes: #303927
99 * patch for dir traversal bug (CAN-2005-1228), closes: #305255
100 * up the priority a click because of the security fixes
101 * patch to support cross building, closes: #283730
103 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 20 May 2005 22:34:49 -0600
105 gzip (1.3.5-9) unstable; urgency=low
107 * eliminate the autoconf and automake build dependencies, since they are
108 no longer needed, closes: #250766
109 * improve temp file usage in gzexe, closes: #257314, #259043
110 * have zmore use 'more' instead of honoring $PAGER, to avoid violating
111 the principle of least astonishment, closes: #234212
112 * fix zgrep choke on filenames including a pipe character, closes: #216211
113 * incorporate watch file, closes: #248722
114 * suggest less, since we provide zless, closes: #217925
115 * use signames instead of signumbers for trap calls, closes: #259284
117 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 24 Jul 2004 01:23:03 -0600
119 gzip (1.3.5-8) unstable; urgency=low
121 * run autoreconf -i to address problem reported with dir.old.gz being
122 included on rebuilds, closes: #249519
123 * change automake build dependency from automake1.7 to automaken
124 * add lintian overrides to squelch the hardlink warnings
125 * fix typo in inflate.c comments, closes: #201881
127 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 23 May 2004 01:07:03 -0600
129 gzip (1.3.5-7) unstable; urgency=low
131 * patch from David Mosberger to incorporate work done by Sverre Jarp on
132 an ia64 version of match.c content.
134 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:45:27 -0600
136 gzip (1.3.5-6) unstable; urgency=medium
138 * patch for insecure temp file usage in znew, closes: #193375
140 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 7 Jun 2003 09:05:11 -0600
142 gzip (1.3.5-5) unstable; urgency=low
144 * apply patch from Anthony Towns that fixes seg faults on alpha during
145 build of Xfree86 at the expense of slightly decreasing the effectiveness
146 of the deflate implementation. closes: #184057, #187417
148 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 16 Apr 2003 11:24:23 -0600
150 gzip (1.3.5-4) unstable; urgency=low
152 * merge patch from Rusty Russell that adds --rsyncable option to gzip.
153 This modifies the output stream to allow rsync to transfer updated .gz
154 files much more effectively. The resulting .gz files should be compatible
155 with the existing gunzip. The plan is that if this works out well for
156 Debian, the functionality will be included in a future upstream gzip
157 release. Closes: #116183, #118118, #134741
159 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 13 Feb 2003 23:50:23 -0700
161 gzip (1.3.5-3) unstable; urgency=low
163 * upload a fresh version so m68k, et al, will rebuild, closes: #167790
165 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 6 Nov 2002 16:13:42 -0700
167 gzip (1.3.5-2) unstable; urgency=low
169 * fix gzexe.in again as per what I did for 1.3.2-3 that accidentally got
170 lost when I merged 1.3.5 from upstream... sigh. Closes: #167150
171 * hack on gzip.texi a little harder to squelch warning at install time from
172 Debian's install-info, closes: #164106
174 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 30 Oct 2002 20:21:42 -0700
176 gzip (1.3.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
178 * new upstream version
179 * fixes a bug in the incorrect-suffix diagnostic, which can lead to a
180 core dump, closes: #152579
181 * removes dangling output symlinks properly, closes: #144759
182 * zless no longer thinks it is zmore in usage message, closes: #121810
183 * zless replaced with a much simpler script, closes: #124097
184 * uses shell pattern matching instead of 'expr', closes: #123295
185 * man page suggests how to use gunzip on zip files, closes: #146019
186 * uses "trap -" to avoid bashism, closes: #140972, #157111
187 * accepts __i386 and __i386__ as synonyms for i386, closes: #152694
188 * fixes printing values greater than 10 * 2**32 bytes, closes: #141189
189 * includes fix for zforce needing -v, closes: #123294
190 * hack gzip.texi so that the Debian install-info doesn't choke on it (grrr),
191 and add texinfo as a build dependency
192 * eliminate things hard-coded in postinst and prerm now handled by debhelper
194 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 9 Oct 2002 09:05:27 -0600
196 gzip (1.3.2-3) unstable; urgency=low
198 * modify gzexe.in to hard-code /bin/gzip instead of trying to use BINDIR
199 which yields /usr/bin/gzip. Don't use PATH since we have no idea what it
200 might be when the gzexe'd executable gets run. Closes: #119641
202 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 14 Nov 2001 23:00:59 -0700
204 gzip (1.3.2-2) unstable; urgency=low
206 * fix silly mistake made when moving man pages from hard to soft links, so
207 man pages for zegrep, zfgrep, and uncompress work again, closes: #118325
209 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Mon, 5 Nov 2001 00:53:40 -0700
211 gzip (1.3.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
213 * new upstream release, incorporating my diffs to 1.3.1
215 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 4 Nov 2001 09:47:40 -0700
217 gzip (1.3.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
219 * add build dependencies on autoconf and automake
220 * fix infodir spec so we install in the build tree, not the system directory
222 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 3 Nov 2001 02:18:06 -0700
224 gzip (1.3.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
226 * new upstream version! From alpha.gnu.org, on the explicit advice of the
227 current upstream maintainers, who are working with Debian to prepare a new
228 stable release that addresses many of the open issues in our BTS.
230 large file support handled in configure, closes: #108612, #83061, #113000
231 it appears the subtle problem with concatenation is fixed, closes: #114591
232 various segfault problems appear fixed, closes: #46312
233 gzip -r issues fixed, closes: #53645, #106186
234 problem with --no-filename option fixed, closes: #59067
235 zgrep -r disallowed - "I did not use the patch as it was not a complete
236 . fix for the problem and I thought it would cause more problems than
237 . it would cure. Instead, I simply disallowed zgrep -r", closes: #81288
238 error message reworded, closes: #76238
239 compression factor output fixed, closes: #80362
240 zgrep -H fixed, closes: #84371
241 permission issue when forced to compress linked file fixed, closes: #88918
242 manpage hardlinks fixed, closes: #94733
243 gzip --help now goes to stdout, closes: #97020
244 zless no longer runs less if file doesn't exist, closes: #109097
245 problem with -best fixed, closes: #17650
246 zgrep now understands --, closes: #28475
247 file size output by gzip fixed for large files, closes: #40721
248 * fix location referenced for GPL on Debian systems, closes: #112095
249 * move install-info remove call from from postrm to prerm
251 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 3 Nov 2001 01:01:02 -0700
253 gzip (1.2.4-33) unstable; urgency=low
255 * update to current policy
257 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 2 Dec 1999 01:10:58 -0700
259 gzip (1.2.4-32) unstable; urgency=low
261 * update prototype for and definition of basename function for compatibility
262 with glibc2.0, still in use on m68k. Closes: #45058
264 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 15 Sep 1999 02:01:47 -0600
266 gzip (1.2.4-31) unstable; urgency=medium
268 * fix problems I induced while merging the upstream patch in the last upload,
269 most notably omitting zless from the package.
270 Closes: #44883, #44885, #44890, #44882, #44887, #44895, #44896
272 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:06:00 -0600
274 gzip (1.2.4-30) unstable; urgency=low
276 * upstream patch, closes: #28872
277 1998-11-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
278 gzip.c (get_method): Don't complain about trailing zeros at
279 the end of a gzipped file, as they're commonly appended to fill
280 out a block (e.g. by GNU tar).
281 * update to FHS compliance
283 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 10 Sep 1999 21:34:07 -0600
285 gzip (1.2.4-29) unstable; urgency=low
287 * apply patch from Vincent Renardias that improves behavior when trying to
288 decompress a corrupted .gz file. Closes 7472, 16385
290 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 27 Jan 1999 20:50:12 -0700
292 gzip (1.2.4-28) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
294 * patch zforce to make it work at all, closes 22760
295 * patch to fix decompression of concatenated gzip files, closes 30537
297 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 22 Jan 1999 10:43:09 -0700
299 gzip (1.2.4-27) frozen unstable; urgency=low
301 * patch from Jean-loup (upstream maintainer) for zgrep.in to fix the
302 problems with -A and -B successfully passing to grep. Closes 21209.
304 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 25 Apr 1998 22:47:15 -0600
306 gzip (1.2.4-26) frozen unstable; urgency=low
308 * fix FSF address in copyright file, lintian now reports no errors
309 * minor tweak to Makefile to fix warnings during dh_installmanpages run
311 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Tue, 24 Mar 1998 00:40:48 -0700
313 gzip (1.2.4-25) frozen unstable; urgency=low
315 * update znew.in and zdiff.in to do save tempfile handling, closes 19794
317 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 21 Mar 1998 23:48:26 -0700
319 gzip (1.2.4-24) unstable; urgency=low
321 * minor fix for complaints about short files, closes 19159
323 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 11 Mar 1998 02:21:50 -0700
325 gzip (1.2.4-23) unstable; urgency=high
327 * respond to security advisory from Alan Cox via Christian Hudon, fixes
328 an obscure possibility to get gzip to execute code
330 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 11 Mar 1998 02:16:59 -0700
332 gzip (1.2.4-22) unstable; urgency=high
334 * gzexe modified to use tempfile in response to security advisory
336 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 31 Jan 1998 14:30:20 -0700
338 gzip (1.2.4-21) unstable; urgency=low
340 * fix from the upstream maintainer for voluminous "Broken Pipe" messages
341 when using 'zgrep -l' or equivalent. Closes bug 15178.
343 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 4 Jan 1998 00:56:21 -0700
345 gzip (1.2.4-20) unstable; urgency=low
347 * freshen rules file to match current debhelper
348 * improve handling of undocumented executables. Closes bug 13578.
350 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 4 Jan 1998 00:56:21 -0700
352 gzip (1.2.4-19) unstable; urgency=low
354 * change dependency to Pre-Depends, to keep dpkg from getting hosed during
355 libc6 upgrades. Closes 15091.
356 * switch from debmake to debhelper. In the process, closes 15412.
358 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Mon, 8 Dec 1997 23:42:49 -0700
360 gzip (1.2.4-18) unstable; urgency=low
362 * don't install INSTALL in the doc directory, closes bug 13224.
364 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 5 Sep 1997 15:06:35 -0600
366 gzip (1.2.4-17) unstable; urgency=low
368 * fix distribution problem in changelog file
370 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 5 Sep 1997 15:06:35 -0600
372 gzip (1.2.4-16) stable frozen unstable; urgency=low
375 * tweaks to rules file to install Changelog, closes bug 12488
377 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 4 Sep 1997 22:46:28 -0600
379 gzip (1.2.4-15) stable frozen unstable; urgency=low
381 * fix minor security issue - race condition reported on bugtraq list
382 * rework debian/rules to build with debugging then strip
384 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 14 Mar 1997 21:14:44 -0700
386 gzip (1.2.4-14) stable frozen unstable; urgency=medium
388 * The -13 upload was built against a libc5 too new for 'stable'.
390 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 28 Nov 1996 11:37:31 -0700
392 gzip (1.2.4-13) stable frozen unstable; urgency=medium
394 * Fix missing "essential" flag on package, lost during standards update.
395 * Push this version back into stable to solve the 'compress' link problem.
397 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Tue, 19 Nov 1996 09:14:14 -0700
399 gzip (1.2.4-12) unstable; urgency=low
403 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 02 Nov 1996 14:47:42 -0800
406 Thu Jul 18 01:30:22 MDT 1996 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
408 * add zegrep and zfgrep links in /usr/bin (Bug#3326)
409 * add an extended description (Bug#3591)
410 * tweak control files to use dpkg-name, etc.
412 Fri May 24 07:37:54 MDT 1996 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
414 * don't provide a 'compress' link since it breaks things, but provide
415 an 'uncompress' link since it's useful.
416 * fix some administrivia
418 Sun Apr 14 20:39:19 MDT 1996 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
420 * change gzexe.in to not use BINDIR, but assume gzip is in PATH
421 * add Architecture field in the control file
423 Wed Jan 17 00:07:00 MST 1996 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
425 * switch targets in the Makefile to also install the links called
426 'compress' and 'uncompress' since some utilities care about these,
427 and we're unlikely to ever have a 'compress' package because of the
428 intellectual property issues.
430 Sat Dec 2 23:45:40 MST 1995 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
433 * add 'zless' as a near-clone of 'zmore', closes bug 1776
434 * unable to duplicate bug 1090, something has improved since then?
435 * add libc5 dependency