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