On 07/01/2018 23:56, Jim Meyering wrote:
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> This is to announce gzip-1.9, a stable release.
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> There have been 53 commits by 2 people in the 89 weeks since 1.8.
> Thanks to Paul Eggert for all of his help.
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> See the NEWS below for a brief summary.
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> Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
> The following people contributed changes to this release:
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>    Jim Meyering (28)
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> Jim [on behalf of the gzip maintainers]
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32-bit results - I package both sizes - in case there is an library 
interface. However, applications are only available in 64-bit.

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============================================================================
Testsuite summary for gzip 1.9
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 21
# PASS:  18
# SKIP:  1
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  2
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================
See tests/test-suite.log
Please report to bug-gzip@gnu.org
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a:
   +826  + eval 'env $i  zin.gz < $tmp_in > $tmp_out'
   +827  ++ env zless zin.gz
   +828  /data/prj/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.9/tests/../zless[71]: less:  not found
   +829  + echo FAIL: zless
   +830  FAIL: zless
   +831  + fail=1

   +891  FAIL: timestamp
   +892  ===============
This is to be expected - I expect - with 32-bit timestamp (OBJECT_MODE=32)

64-bit results

============================================================================
Testsuite summary for gzip 1.9
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 21
# PASS:  19
# SKIP:  1
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  1
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================
See tests/test-suite.log
Please report to bug-gzip@gnu.org
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Again, less is still not installed.