[Lzip-bug] Pdlzip 1.6-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Pdlzip 1.6-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/pdlzip/pdlzip-1.6-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/pdlzip/pdlzip-1.6-rc1.tar.gz

The sha1sums are:
e34cff5bc0c1eb803cf58baac90c6b0c0d686f08  pdlzip-1.6-rc1.tar.lz
04789b0213a3c334d7afb62f62aa1700e5c5ef46  pdlzip-1.6-rc1.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Pdlzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to 
the one of lzip, bzip2 or gzip. Pdlzip includes public domain 
(de)compression code from the LZMA SDK (Software Development Kit) 
written by Igor Pavlov.

Pdlzip uses the lzip file format; the files produced by pdlzip are 
(hope)fully compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer. The lzip file format is 
designed for data sharing and long-term archiving, taking into account 
both data integrity and decoder availability.

Pdlzip is also able to decompress legacy lzma-alone (.lzma) files. 
Lzma-alone is a very bad format. If you keep any lzma-alone files, it is 
advisable to recompress them to lzip format.

The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/pdlzip.html


Changes in this version:

  * Copying of file dates, permissions, and ownership now behaves like 
"cp -p". (If the user ID or the group ID can't be duplicated, the file 
permission bits S_ISUID and S_ISGID are cleared).

  * The targets "install-compress", "install-strip-compress" and 
"install-man-compress" have been added to the Makefile.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, pdlzip co-author and maintainer.