[Lzip-bug] Pdlzip 1.6 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of pdlzip 1.6.

Pdlzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to 
the one of lzip, bzip2 or gzip.

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.

Pdlzip includes public domain (de)compression code from the LZMA SDK 
(Software Development Kit) written by Igor Pavlov. Pdlzip is in fact a 
permissively licensed implementation of the lzip data compressor, 
intended for those who can't distribute (or even use) GPL licensed Free 
Software.

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

The sources can be downloaded from
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/pdlzip/

The sha1sums are:
03fcecda2328c580f384d52794925fccf2750d51  pdlzip-1.6.tar.lz
efc29d86a5a8340b9f2c123a61a838145ce5693f  pdlzip-1.6.tar.gz

This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by 
appending ".sig" to the URL.

Changes in version 1.6:

  * 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.


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


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