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