1 gzip (1.3.5-10sarge1) stable; urgency=low
3 * merge patch from Matt Zimmerman for futex hang due to improper signal
4 handling, closes: #310053, #315612
5 * backport to stable since this problem affects several debian.org servers
7 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 22:25:19 -0700
9 gzip (1.3.5-10) unstable; urgency=medium
11 * remove PAGER reference from zmore.1, closes: #263792
12 * patch to improve zgrep argument sanitizing (CAN-2005-0758),
14 * patch isolated by Petter Reinholdtsen for CAN-2005-0988, closes: #303927
15 * patch for dir traversal bug (CAN-2005-1228), closes: #305255
16 * up the priority a click because of the security fixes
17 * patch to support cross building, closes: #283730
19 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 20 May 2005 22:34:49 -0600
21 gzip (1.3.5-9) unstable; urgency=low
23 * eliminate the autoconf and automake build dependencies, since they are
24 no longer needed, closes: #250766
25 * improve temp file usage in gzexe, closes: #257314, #259043
26 * have zmore use 'more' instead of honoring $PAGER, to avoid violating
27 the principle of least astonishment, closes: #234212
28 * fix zgrep choke on filenames including a pipe character, closes: #216211
29 * incorporate watch file, closes: #248722
30 * suggest less, since we provide zless, closes: #217925
31 * use signames instead of signumbers for trap calls, closes: #259284
33 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 24 Jul 2004 01:23:03 -0600
35 gzip (1.3.5-8) unstable; urgency=low
37 * run autoreconf -i to address problem reported with dir.old.gz being
38 included on rebuilds, closes: #249519
39 * change automake build dependency from automake1.7 to automaken
40 * add lintian overrides to squelch the hardlink warnings
41 * fix typo in inflate.c comments, closes: #201881
43 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 23 May 2004 01:07:03 -0600
45 gzip (1.3.5-7) unstable; urgency=low
47 * patch from David Mosberger to incorporate work done by Sverre Jarp on
48 an ia64 version of match.c content.
50 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:45:27 -0600
52 gzip (1.3.5-6) unstable; urgency=medium
54 * patch for insecure temp file usage in znew, closes: #193375
56 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 7 Jun 2003 09:05:11 -0600
58 gzip (1.3.5-5) unstable; urgency=low
60 * apply patch from Anthony Towns that fixes seg faults on alpha during
61 build of Xfree86 at the expense of slightly decreasing the effectiveness
62 of the deflate implementation. closes: #184057, #187417
64 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 16 Apr 2003 11:24:23 -0600
66 gzip (1.3.5-4) unstable; urgency=low
68 * merge patch from Rusty Russell that adds --rsyncable option to gzip.
69 This modifies the output stream to allow rsync to transfer updated .gz
70 files much more effectively. The resulting .gz files should be compatible
71 with the existing gunzip. The plan is that if this works out well for
72 Debian, the functionality will be included in a future upstream gzip
73 release. Closes: #116183, #118118, #134741
75 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 13 Feb 2003 23:50:23 -0700
77 gzip (1.3.5-3) unstable; urgency=low
79 * upload a fresh version so m68k, et al, will rebuild, closes: #167790
81 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 6 Nov 2002 16:13:42 -0700
83 gzip (1.3.5-2) unstable; urgency=low
85 * fix gzexe.in again as per what I did for 1.3.2-3 that accidentally got
86 lost when I merged 1.3.5 from upstream... sigh. Closes: #167150
87 * hack on gzip.texi a little harder to squelch warning at install time from
88 Debian's install-info, closes: #164106
90 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 30 Oct 2002 20:21:42 -0700
92 gzip (1.3.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
94 * new upstream version
95 * fixes a bug in the incorrect-suffix diagnostic, which can lead to a
96 core dump, closes: #152579
97 * removes dangling output symlinks properly, closes: #144759
98 * zless no longer thinks it is zmore in usage message, closes: #121810
99 * zless replaced with a much simpler script, closes: #124097
100 * uses shell pattern matching instead of 'expr', closes: #123295
101 * man page suggests how to use gunzip on zip files, closes: #146019
102 * uses "trap -" to avoid bashism, closes: #140972, #157111
103 * accepts __i386 and __i386__ as synonyms for i386, closes: #152694
104 * fixes printing values greater than 10 * 2**32 bytes, closes: #141189
105 * includes fix for zforce needing -v, closes: #123294
106 * hack gzip.texi so that the Debian install-info doesn't choke on it (grrr),
107 and add texinfo as a build dependency
108 * eliminate things hard-coded in postinst and prerm now handled by debhelper
110 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 9 Oct 2002 09:05:27 -0600
112 gzip (1.3.2-3) unstable; urgency=low
114 * modify gzexe.in to hard-code /bin/gzip instead of trying to use BINDIR
115 which yields /usr/bin/gzip. Don't use PATH since we have no idea what it
116 might be when the gzexe'd executable gets run. Closes: #119641
118 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 14 Nov 2001 23:00:59 -0700
120 gzip (1.3.2-2) unstable; urgency=low
122 * fix silly mistake made when moving man pages from hard to soft links, so
123 man pages for zegrep, zfgrep, and uncompress work again, closes: #118325
125 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Mon, 5 Nov 2001 00:53:40 -0700
127 gzip (1.3.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
129 * new upstream release, incorporating my diffs to 1.3.1
131 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 4 Nov 2001 09:47:40 -0700
133 gzip (1.3.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
135 * add build dependencies on autoconf and automake
136 * fix infodir spec so we install in the build tree, not the system directory
138 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 3 Nov 2001 02:18:06 -0700
140 gzip (1.3.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
142 * new upstream version! From alpha.gnu.org, on the explicit advice of the
143 current upstream maintainers, who are working with Debian to prepare a new
144 stable release that addresses many of the open issues in our BTS.
146 large file support handled in configure, closes: #108612, #83061, #113000
147 it appears the subtle problem with concatenation is fixed, closes: #114591
148 various segfault problems appear fixed, closes: #46312
149 gzip -r issues fixed, closes: #53645, #106186
150 problem with --no-filename option fixed, closes: #59067
151 zgrep -r disallowed - "I did not use the patch as it was not a complete
152 . fix for the problem and I thought it would cause more problems than
153 . it would cure. Instead, I simply disallowed zgrep -r", closes: #81288
154 error message reworded, closes: #76238
155 compression factor output fixed, closes: #80362
156 zgrep -H fixed, closes: #84371
157 permission issue when forced to compress linked file fixed, closes: #88918
158 manpage hardlinks fixed, closes: #94733
159 gzip --help now goes to stdout, closes: #97020
160 zless no longer runs less if file doesn't exist, closes: #109097
161 problem with -best fixed, closes: #17650
162 zgrep now understands --, closes: #28475
163 file size output by gzip fixed for large files, closes: #40721
164 * fix location referenced for GPL on Debian systems, closes: #112095
165 * move install-info remove call from from postrm to prerm
167 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 3 Nov 2001 01:01:02 -0700
169 gzip (1.2.4-33) unstable; urgency=low
171 * update to current policy
173 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 2 Dec 1999 01:10:58 -0700
175 gzip (1.2.4-32) unstable; urgency=low
177 * update prototype for and definition of basename function for compatibility
178 with glibc2.0, still in use on m68k. Closes: #45058
180 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 15 Sep 1999 02:01:47 -0600
182 gzip (1.2.4-31) unstable; urgency=medium
184 * fix problems I induced while merging the upstream patch in the last upload,
185 most notably omitting zless from the package.
186 Closes: #44883, #44885, #44890, #44882, #44887, #44895, #44896
188 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:06:00 -0600
190 gzip (1.2.4-30) unstable; urgency=low
192 * upstream patch, closes: #28872
193 1998-11-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
194 gzip.c (get_method): Don't complain about trailing zeros at
195 the end of a gzipped file, as they're commonly appended to fill
196 out a block (e.g. by GNU tar).
197 * update to FHS compliance
199 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 10 Sep 1999 21:34:07 -0600
201 gzip (1.2.4-29) unstable; urgency=low
203 * apply patch from Vincent Renardias that improves behavior when trying to
204 decompress a corrupted .gz file. Closes 7472, 16385
206 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 27 Jan 1999 20:50:12 -0700
208 gzip (1.2.4-28) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
210 * patch zforce to make it work at all, closes 22760
211 * patch to fix decompression of concatenated gzip files, closes 30537
213 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 22 Jan 1999 10:43:09 -0700
215 gzip (1.2.4-27) frozen unstable; urgency=low
217 * patch from Jean-loup (upstream maintainer) for zgrep.in to fix the
218 problems with -A and -B successfully passing to grep. Closes 21209.
220 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 25 Apr 1998 22:47:15 -0600
222 gzip (1.2.4-26) frozen unstable; urgency=low
224 * fix FSF address in copyright file, lintian now reports no errors
225 * minor tweak to Makefile to fix warnings during dh_installmanpages run
227 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Tue, 24 Mar 1998 00:40:48 -0700
229 gzip (1.2.4-25) frozen unstable; urgency=low
231 * update znew.in and zdiff.in to do save tempfile handling, closes 19794
233 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 21 Mar 1998 23:48:26 -0700
235 gzip (1.2.4-24) unstable; urgency=low
237 * minor fix for complaints about short files, closes 19159
239 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 11 Mar 1998 02:21:50 -0700
241 gzip (1.2.4-23) unstable; urgency=high
243 * respond to security advisory from Alan Cox via Christian Hudon, fixes
244 an obscure possibility to get gzip to execute code
246 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 11 Mar 1998 02:16:59 -0700
248 gzip (1.2.4-22) unstable; urgency=high
250 * gzexe modified to use tempfile in response to security advisory
252 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 31 Jan 1998 14:30:20 -0700
254 gzip (1.2.4-21) unstable; urgency=low
256 * fix from the upstream maintainer for voluminous "Broken Pipe" messages
257 when using 'zgrep -l' or equivalent. Closes bug 15178.
259 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 4 Jan 1998 00:56:21 -0700
261 gzip (1.2.4-20) unstable; urgency=low
263 * freshen rules file to match current debhelper
264 * improve handling of undocumented executables. Closes bug 13578.
266 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 4 Jan 1998 00:56:21 -0700
268 gzip (1.2.4-19) unstable; urgency=low
270 * change dependency to Pre-Depends, to keep dpkg from getting hosed during
271 libc6 upgrades. Closes 15091.
272 * switch from debmake to debhelper. In the process, closes 15412.
274 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Mon, 8 Dec 1997 23:42:49 -0700
276 gzip (1.2.4-18) unstable; urgency=low
278 * don't install INSTALL in the doc directory, closes bug 13224.
280 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 5 Sep 1997 15:06:35 -0600
282 gzip (1.2.4-17) unstable; urgency=low
284 * fix distribution problem in changelog file
286 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 5 Sep 1997 15:06:35 -0600
288 gzip (1.2.4-16) stable frozen unstable; urgency=low
291 * tweaks to rules file to install Changelog, closes bug 12488
293 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 4 Sep 1997 22:46:28 -0600
295 gzip (1.2.4-15) stable frozen unstable; urgency=low
297 * fix minor security issue - race condition reported on bugtraq list
298 * rework debian/rules to build with debugging then strip
300 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 14 Mar 1997 21:14:44 -0700
302 gzip (1.2.4-14) stable frozen unstable; urgency=medium
304 * The -13 upload was built against a libc5 too new for 'stable'.
306 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 28 Nov 1996 11:37:31 -0700
308 gzip (1.2.4-13) stable frozen unstable; urgency=medium
310 * Fix missing "essential" flag on package, lost during standards update.
311 * Push this version back into stable to solve the 'compress' link problem.
313 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Tue, 19 Nov 1996 09:14:14 -0700
315 gzip (1.2.4-12) unstable; urgency=low
319 -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 02 Nov 1996 14:47:42 -0800
322 Thu Jul 18 01:30:22 MDT 1996 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
324 * add zegrep and zfgrep links in /usr/bin (Bug#3326)
325 * add an extended description (Bug#3591)
326 * tweak control files to use dpkg-name, etc.
328 Fri May 24 07:37:54 MDT 1996 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
330 * don't provide a 'compress' link since it breaks things, but provide
331 an 'uncompress' link since it's useful.
332 * fix some administrivia
334 Sun Apr 14 20:39:19 MDT 1996 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
336 * change gzexe.in to not use BINDIR, but assume gzip is in PATH
337 * add Architecture field in the control file
339 Wed Jan 17 00:07:00 MST 1996 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
341 * switch targets in the Makefile to also install the links called
342 'compress' and 'uncompress' since some utilities care about these,
343 and we're unlikely to ever have a 'compress' package because of the
344 intellectual property issues.
346 Sat Dec 2 23:45:40 MST 1995 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
349 * add 'zless' as a near-clone of 'zmore', closes bug 1776
350 * unable to duplicate bug 1090, something has improved since then?
351 * add libc5 dependency