2010
gzip (1.3.12-9) unstable; urgency=high
* fix applied for CVE-2010-0001 which identified an integer underflow when decompressing files that are compressed using the LZW algorithm. This could lead to the execution of arbitrary code when trying to decompress a crafted LZW compressed gzip archive. * switch to using dh_lintian for override delivery
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:38:41 +1300
2009
gzip (1.3.12-8) unstable; urgency=low
* Add Carl Worth as an uploader. * Fix "-f -" to work with zgrep, closes: #168606 * Avoid creating undersized hufts table, closes: #507263
-- Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:54:37 -0800
gzip (1.3.12-7) unstable; urgency=low
* improve package descriptions, remove ancient package relationship spec
in control file, closes: #484547
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:54:48 -0700
2008
gzip (1.3.12-6) unstable; urgency=low
* strip the win32 gzip.exe binary during install, closes: #464455 * patch from Reuben Thomas for the zless.1 man page with pointers to lessfile and lesspipe, which are a better solution than zless in most cases... closes: #46787, #51162 * fix FTBFS when using gcc-4.3, closes: #476031 * remove the preinst since the --assert-support-predepends check should no longer be necessary
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:03:26 -0600
gzip (1.3.12-5) unstable; urgency=low
* patch for zgrep.in from Daniel Kobras, closes: #434429 * patch from upstream to fix compilation with mingw32, and patch from Robert Millan to build a win32 executable if mingw32 is available, all to fix a preseeding problem in the win32-loader for Debian Installer. closes: #457867
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:46:42 -0700
2007
gzip (1.3.12-4) unstable; urgency=low
* incorporate diffs from NMUs, closes: #434275, #433845, #438675 * define UNALIGNED_OK when building for amd64, closes: #386356
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:48:37 -0700
gzip (1.3.12-3.2) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer upload.
* Stop zdiff from dropping cmp's output. Patch thanks to Jorg-Volker Peetz
(Closes: Bug#434275)
-- Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:50:29 +1000
gzip (1.3.12-3.1) unstable; urgency=medium
* Non-maintainer upload.
* Rename futimens to gz_futimens, since glibc now defines an futimens
function with a different prototype. Closes: #433845.
* Urgency medium for the RC bug fix.
-- Daniel Schepler <schepler@debian.org> Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:11:52 -0400
gzip (1.3.12-3) unstable; urgency=low
* fix bindir so gunzip, et al, work again, closes: #429462
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:08:59 +0100
gzip (1.3.12-2) unstable; urgency=low
* fix typo in gzip fprintf, closes: #426965 * revert my zgrep.in patch since upstream handles alternates differently now
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:17:37 -0400
gzip (1.3.12-1) unstable; urgency=low
* new upstream version, closes: #177942, #225864, #362786, #366660, #367400, #383358, #402042, #404099, #404114, #419895 * fix delivery of upstream ChangeLog, closes: #404062
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:55:42 -0400
2006
gzip (1.3.9-2) unstable; urgency=low
* change direntry ordering in gzip.texi to work around bug in install-info,
closes: #404048
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:16:16 -0700
gzip (1.3.9-1) unstable; urgency=low
* new upstream version, closes: #366660, #403308 * clean up a few gratuitous differences from new upstream, leaving only the rsyncable patch and tweaks like zmore always using more * fix spelling error in documentation, closes: #395450 * upstream patch for regression uncompressing null input, closes: #403970
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:16:36 -0700
gzip (1.3.5-15) unstable; urgency=high
* security update, covering the following alerts:
CVE-2006-4334 CVE-2006-4335 CVE-2006-4336 CVE-2006-4337 CVE-2006-4338
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:35:26 -0600
gzip (1.3.5-14) unstable; urgency=medium
* update section to match override
* patch from Matthew Chapman to avoid deleting input file before we're
sure the output file has been written without errors, closes: #366660
* patch from Reuben Thomas to fix zgrep return code,
closes: #292896, #192891, #190442
* enable gzexe compressed files to work on systems where tempfile is not
available while retaining preference for tempfile, closes: #334540
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:02:27 -0600
gzip (1.3.5-13) unstable; urgency=low
* patch from Reuben Thomas fixes problem passing zgrep filenames starting
with dashes, closes: #342501
* fix a spelling error in gzip man page, closes: #356011
* document the fact that zless doesn't work with stdin,
closes: #320226, #345036
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 15 Apr 2006 01:31:54 -0600
2005
gzip (1.3.5-12) unstable; urgency=low
* merge patch from Matt Zimmerman for futex hang due to improper signal
handling, closes: #310053, #315612
* merge patch to add --rsyncable to the man page, closes: #289616, #295721
* don't return failing result code on harmless warning, closes: #169669
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:10:51 +0300
gzip (1.3.5-11) unstable; urgency=low
* patch from Peter Samuelson for bashism in zgrep,
closes: #314342, #314211, #312380, #310329
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:39:11 -0600
gzip (1.3.5-10) unstable; urgency=medium
* remove PAGER reference from zmore.1, closes: #263792 * patch to improve zgrep argument sanitizing (CAN-2005-0758), closes: #308379 * patch isolated by Petter Reinholdtsen for CAN-2005-0988, closes: #303927 * patch for dir traversal bug (CAN-2005-1228), closes: #305255 * up the priority a click because of the security fixes * patch to support cross building, closes: #283730
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 20 May 2005 22:34:49 -0600
2004
gzip (1.3.5-9) unstable; urgency=low
* eliminate the autoconf and automake build dependencies, since they are
no longer needed, closes: #250766
* improve temp file usage in gzexe, closes: #257314, #259043
* have zmore use 'more' instead of honoring $PAGER, to avoid violating
the principle of least astonishment, closes: #234212
* fix zgrep choke on filenames including a pipe character, closes: #216211
* incorporate watch file, closes: #248722
* suggest less, since we provide zless, closes: #217925
* use signames instead of signumbers for trap calls, closes: #259284
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 24 Jul 2004 01:23:03 -0600
gzip (1.3.5-8) unstable; urgency=low
* run autoreconf -i to address problem reported with dir.old.gz being
included on rebuilds, closes: #249519
* change automake build dependency from automake1.7 to automaken
* add lintian overrides to squelch the hardlink warnings
* fix typo in inflate.c comments, closes: #201881
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 23 May 2004 01:07:03 -0600
2003
gzip (1.3.5-7) unstable; urgency=low
* patch from David Mosberger to incorporate work done by Sverre Jarp on
an ia64 version of match.c content.
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:45:27 -0600
gzip (1.3.5-6) unstable; urgency=medium
* patch for insecure temp file usage in znew, closes: #193375
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 7 Jun 2003 09:05:11 -0600
gzip (1.3.5-5) unstable; urgency=low
* apply patch from Anthony Towns that fixes seg faults on alpha during
build of Xfree86 at the expense of slightly decreasing the effectiveness
of the deflate implementation. closes: #184057, #187417
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 16 Apr 2003 11:24:23 -0600
gzip (1.3.5-4) unstable; urgency=low
* merge patch from Rusty Russell that adds --rsyncable option to gzip.
This modifies the output stream to allow rsync to transfer updated .gz
files much more effectively. The resulting .gz files should be compatible
with the existing gunzip. The plan is that if this works out well for
Debian, the functionality will be included in a future upstream gzip
release. Closes: #116183, #118118, #134741
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 13 Feb 2003 23:50:23 -0700
2002
gzip (1.3.5-3) unstable; urgency=low
* upload a fresh version so m68k, et al, will rebuild, closes: #167790
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 6 Nov 2002 16:13:42 -0700
gzip (1.3.5-2) unstable; urgency=low
* fix gzexe.in again as per what I did for 1.3.2-3 that accidentally got
lost when I merged 1.3.5 from upstream... sigh. Closes: #167150
* hack on gzip.texi a little harder to squelch warning at install time from
Debian's install-info, closes: #164106
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 30 Oct 2002 20:21:42 -0700
gzip (1.3.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
* new upstream version
* fixes a bug in the incorrect-suffix diagnostic, which can lead to a
core dump, closes: #152579
* removes dangling output symlinks properly, closes: #144759
* zless no longer thinks it is zmore in usage message, closes: #121810
* zless replaced with a much simpler script, closes: #124097
* uses shell pattern matching instead of 'expr', closes: #123295
* man page suggests how to use gunzip on zip files, closes: #146019
* uses "trap -" to avoid bashism, closes: #140972, #157111
* accepts __i386 and __i386__ as synonyms for i386, closes: #152694
* fixes printing values greater than 10 * 2**32 bytes, closes: #141189
* includes fix for zforce needing -v, closes: #123294
* hack gzip.texi so that the Debian install-info doesn't choke on it (grrr),
and add texinfo as a build dependency
* eliminate things hard-coded in postinst and prerm now handled by debhelper
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 9 Oct 2002 09:05:27 -0600
2001
gzip (1.3.2-3) unstable; urgency=low
* modify gzexe.in to hard-code /bin/gzip instead of trying to use BINDIR
which yields /usr/bin/gzip. Don't use PATH since we have no idea what it
might be when the gzexe'd executable gets run. Closes: #119641
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 14 Nov 2001 23:00:59 -0700
gzip (1.3.2-2) unstable; urgency=low
* fix silly mistake made when moving man pages from hard to soft links, so
man pages for zegrep, zfgrep, and uncompress work again, closes: #118325
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Mon, 5 Nov 2001 00:53:40 -0700
gzip (1.3.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
* new upstream release, incorporating my diffs to 1.3.1
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 4 Nov 2001 09:47:40 -0700
gzip (1.3.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
* add build dependencies on autoconf and automake * fix infodir spec so we install in the build tree, not the system directory
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 3 Nov 2001 02:18:06 -0700
gzip (1.3.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
* new upstream version! From alpha.gnu.org, on the explicit advice of the
current upstream maintainers, who are working with Debian to prepare a new
stable release that addresses many of the open issues in our BTS.
.
large file support handled in configure, closes: #108612, #83061, #113000
it appears the subtle problem with concatenation is fixed, closes: #114591
various segfault problems appear fixed, closes: #46312
gzip -r issues fixed, closes: #53645, #106186
problem with --no-filename option fixed, closes: #59067
zgrep -r disallowed - "I did not use the patch as it was not a complete
. fix for the problem and I thought it would cause more problems than
. it would cure. Instead, I simply disallowed zgrep -r", closes: #81288
error message reworded, closes: #76238
compression factor output fixed, closes: #80362
zgrep -H fixed, closes: #84371
permission issue when forced to compress linked file fixed, closes: #88918
manpage hardlinks fixed, closes: #94733
gzip --help now goes to stdout, closes: #97020
zless no longer runs less if file doesn't exist, closes: #109097
problem with -best fixed, closes: #17650
zgrep now understands --, closes: #28475
file size output by gzip fixed for large files, closes: #40721
* fix location referenced for GPL on Debian systems, closes: #112095
* move install-info remove call from from postrm to prerm
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 3 Nov 2001 01:01:02 -0700
1999
gzip (1.2.4-33) unstable; urgency=low
* update to current policy
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 2 Dec 1999 01:10:58 -0700
gzip (1.2.4-32) unstable; urgency=low
* update prototype for and definition of basename function for compatibility
with glibc2.0, still in use on m68k. Closes: #45058
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 15 Sep 1999 02:01:47 -0600
gzip (1.2.4-31) unstable; urgency=medium
* fix problems I induced while merging the upstream patch in the last upload,
most notably omitting zless from the package.
Closes: #44883, #44885, #44890, #44882, #44887, #44895, #44896
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:06:00 -0600
gzip (1.2.4-30) unstable; urgency=low
* upstream patch, closes: #28872 1998-11-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> gzip.c (get_method): Don't complain about trailing zeros at the end of a gzipped file, as they're commonly appended to fill out a block (e.g. by GNU tar). * update to FHS compliance
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 10 Sep 1999 21:34:07 -0600
gzip (1.2.4-29) unstable; urgency=low
* apply patch from Vincent Renardias that improves behavior when trying to
decompress a corrupted .gz file. Closes 7472, 16385
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 27 Jan 1999 20:50:12 -0700
gzip (1.2.4-28) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
* patch zforce to make it work at all, closes 22760 * patch to fix decompression of concatenated gzip files, closes 30537
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 22 Jan 1999 10:43:09 -0700
1998
gzip (1.2.4-27) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* patch from Jean-loup (upstream maintainer) for zgrep.in to fix the
problems with -A and -B successfully passing to grep. Closes 21209.
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 25 Apr 1998 22:47:15 -0600
gzip (1.2.4-26) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* fix FSF address in copyright file, lintian now reports no errors * minor tweak to Makefile to fix warnings during dh_installmanpages run
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Tue, 24 Mar 1998 00:40:48 -0700
gzip (1.2.4-25) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* update znew.in and zdiff.in to do save tempfile handling, closes 19794
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 21 Mar 1998 23:48:26 -0700
gzip (1.2.4-24) unstable; urgency=low
* minor fix for complaints about short files, closes 19159
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 11 Mar 1998 02:21:50 -0700
gzip (1.2.4-23) unstable; urgency=high
* respond to security advisory from Alan Cox via Christian Hudon, fixes
an obscure possibility to get gzip to execute code
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Wed, 11 Mar 1998 02:16:59 -0700
gzip (1.2.4-22) unstable; urgency=high
* gzexe modified to use tempfile in response to security advisory
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 31 Jan 1998 14:30:20 -0700
gzip (1.2.4-21) unstable; urgency=low
* fix from the upstream maintainer for voluminous "Broken Pipe" messages
when using 'zgrep -l' or equivalent. Closes bug 15178.
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 4 Jan 1998 00:56:21 -0700
gzip (1.2.4-20) unstable; urgency=low
* freshen rules file to match current debhelper * improve handling of undocumented executables. Closes bug 13578.
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sun, 4 Jan 1998 00:56:21 -0700
1997
gzip (1.2.4-19) unstable; urgency=low
* change dependency to Pre-Depends, to keep dpkg from getting hosed during
libc6 upgrades. Closes 15091.
* switch from debmake to debhelper. In the process, closes 15412.
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Mon, 8 Dec 1997 23:42:49 -0700
gzip (1.2.4-18) unstable; urgency=low
* don't install INSTALL in the doc directory, closes bug 13224.
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 5 Sep 1997 15:06:35 -0600
gzip (1.2.4-17) unstable; urgency=low
* fix distribution problem in changelog file
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 5 Sep 1997 15:06:35 -0600
gzip (1.2.4-16) stable frozen unstable; urgency=low
* libc6 * tweaks to rules file to install Changelog, closes bug 12488
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 4 Sep 1997 22:46:28 -0600
gzip (1.2.4-15) stable frozen unstable; urgency=low
* fix minor security issue - race condition reported on bugtraq list * rework debian/rules to build with debugging then strip
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Fri, 14 Mar 1997 21:14:44 -0700
1996
gzip (1.2.4-14) stable frozen unstable; urgency=medium
* The -13 upload was built against a libc5 too new for 'stable'.
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Thu, 28 Nov 1996 11:37:31 -0700
gzip (1.2.4-13) stable frozen unstable; urgency=medium
* Fix missing "essential" flag on package, lost during standards update. * Push this version back into stable to solve the 'compress' link problem.
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Tue, 19 Nov 1996 09:14:14 -0700
gzip (1.2.4-12) unstable; urgency=low
* New packag format.
-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 02 Nov 1996 14:47:42 -0800
Old changelog format(s), not parsed
Thu Jul 18 01:30:22 MDT 1996 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> * add zegrep and zfgrep links in /usr/bin (Bug#3326) * add an extended description (Bug#3591) * tweak control files to use dpkg-name, etc. Fri May 24 07:37:54 MDT 1996 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> * don't provide a 'compress' link since it breaks things, but provide an 'uncompress' link since it's useful. * fix some administrivia Sun Apr 14 20:39:19 MDT 1996 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> * change gzexe.in to not use BINDIR, but assume gzip is in PATH * add Architecture field in the control file Wed Jan 17 00:07:00 MST 1996 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> * switch targets in the Makefile to also install the links called 'compress' and 'uncompress' since some utilities care about these, and we're unlikely to ever have a 'compress' package because of the intellectual property issues. Sat Dec 2 23:45:40 MST 1995 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> * building for ELF * add 'zless' as a near-clone of 'zmore', closes bug 1776 * unable to duplicate bug 1090, something has improved since then? * add libc5 dependency * new maintainer