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