[Lzip-bug] Lziprecover 1.24-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lziprecover 1.24-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lziprecover/lziprecover-1.24-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lziprecover/lziprecover-1.24-rc1.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
4f633adad14babba394d3c0ddf171eef6545323a6e156bd8a69a728aefed4e64 
lziprecover-1.24-rc1.tar.lz
0d473034aafe9e24ee91ba69eba9c83e7dafd5a7c6986b8e2b3b4587628080b7 
lziprecover-1.24-rc1.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Lziprecover is a data recovery tool and decompressor for files in the lzip 
compressed data format (.lz). Lziprecover is able to repair slightly damaged 
files (up to one single-byte error per member), produce a correct file by 
merging the good parts of two or more damaged copies, reproduce a missing 
(zeroed) sector using a reference file, extract data from damaged files, 
decompress files, and test integrity of files.

Lziprecover can remove the damaged members from multimember files, for 
example multimember tar.lz archives.

Lziprecover provides random access to the data in multimember files; it only 
decompresses the members containing the desired data.

Lziprecover facilitates the management of metadata stored as trailing data 
in lzip files.

A nice feature of the lzip format is that a corrupt byte is easier to repair 
the nearer it is from the beginning of the file. Therefore, with the help of 
lziprecover, losing an entire archive just because of a corrupt byte near 
the beginning is a thing of the past.

If the cause of file corruption is a damaged medium, the combination GNU 
ddrescue[1] + lziprecover is the recommended option for recovering data from 
damaged lzip files.

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


Changes in this version:

  * File diagnostics have been reformatted as 'PROGRAM: FILE: MESSAGE'.

  * The option '-o, --output' now creates missing intermediate directories 
when writing to a file.

  * The variable MAKEINFO has been added to configure and Makefile.in.

  * The makefile target 'install-as-lzip' has been removed because 
--reproduce needs a lzip compressor (not just a decompressor) named 'lzip' 
by default.


[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lziprecover author and maintainer.

--
If you are using gzip, bzip2, or xz, please consider the long-term 
advantages of switching to lzip:
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/safety_of_the_lzip_format.html Thanks.