[Lzip-bug] Clzip 1.12-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Clzip 1.12-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/clzip/clzip-1.12-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/clzip/clzip-1.12-rc1.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
c174e53fa126541417714ca7de216209e6b0c32b160e87090283c92c85f75b1e 
clzip-1.12-rc1.tar.lz
0972060a23b863dc3206bbe99aeb10ea19b085cd70398b10456ae865ad623244 
clzip-1.12-rc1.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Clzip is a C language version of lzip, fully compatible with lzip 1.4 or 
newer. As clzip is written in C, it may be easier to integrate in 
applications like package managers, embedded devices, or systems lacking a 
C++ compiler.

Lzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the one 
of gzip or bzip2. Lzip uses a simplified form of the 'Lempel-Ziv-Markov 
chain-Algorithm' (LZMA) stream format, chosen to maximize safety and 
interoperability. Lzip can compress about as fast as gzip (lzip -0) or 
compress most files more than bzip2 (lzip -9). Decompression speed is 
intermediate between gzip and bzip2. Lzip is better than gzip and bzip2 from 
a data recovery perspective. Lzip has been designed, written, and tested 
with great care to replace gzip and bzip2 as the standard general-purpose 
compressed format for unix-like systems.

The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term archiving, 
taking into account both data integrity and decoder availability.

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

Changes in this version:

  * Clzip now reports an error if a file name is empty (clzip -t "").

  * Option '-o, --output' now behaves like '-c, --stdout', but sending the 
output unconditionally to a file instead of to standard output. See the new 
description of '-o' in the manual. This change is backwards compatible only 
when (de)compressing from standard input alone. Therefore commands like:
  clzip -o foo.lz - bar < foo
must now be split into:
  clzip -o foo.lz - < foo
  clzip bar
or rewritten as:
  clzip - bar < foo > foo.lz

  * When using '-c' or '-o', clzip now checks whether the output is a 
terminal only once.

  * The words 'decompressed' and 'compressed' have been replaced with the 
shorter 'out' and 'in' in the verbose output when decompressing or testing.

  * Option '--list' now reports corruption or truncation of the last header 
in a multimenber file specifically instead of showing the generic message 
"Last member in input file is truncated or corrupt."

  * The commands needed to extract files from a tar.lz archive have been 
documented in the manual, in the output of '--help', and in the man page.

  * Several fixes and improvements have been made to the manual.

  * 9 new test files have been added to the testsuite.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, clzip author and maintainer.
Self-determination is a human right. Free Catalan political prisoners.
--
If you care about long-term archiving, please help me replace xz with lzip. 
See http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#xz1
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html Thanks.