[Zutils-bug] Zutils 1.9-rc3 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Zutils 1.9-rc3 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/zutils/zutils-1.9-rc3.tar.lz

The sha256sum is:
e3ce06a0877b368e5346cd71a858f2fe8a4a4bdb1b212daae7d341e1e42713be 
zutils-1.9-rc3.tar.lz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Zutils is a collection of utilities able to process any combination of 
compressed and uncompressed files transparently. If any file given, 
including standard input, is compressed, its decompressed content is used. 
Compressed files are decompressed on the fly; no temporary files are created.

These utilities are not wrapper scripts but safer and more efficient C++ 
programs. In particular the option "--recursive" is very efficient in those 
utilities supporting it.

The utilities provided are zcat, zcmp, zdiff, zgrep, ztest, and zupdate.
The formats supported are bzip2, gzip, lzip, and xz.
Zutils uses external compressors. The compressor to be used for each format 
is configurable at runtime.

zcat, zcmp, zdiff, and zgrep are improved replacements for the shell scripts 
provided by GNU gzip. ztest is unique to zutils. zupdate is similar to 
gzip's znew.

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


Changes in this version:

  * zupdate now keeps combined extensions: tgz, tbz, tbz2, txz --> tlz.
    This is useful when recompressing Slackware packages, for example.

  * zupdate has been modified to support the new behavior of lzip 1.22's 
option '-o' while retaining:
  perfect backwards compatibility with older versions of lzip down to 1.20,
  good backwards compatibility with older versions of lzip down to 1.11,
  acceptable backwards compatibility with older versions of lzip down to 1.4.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, zutils 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.