GNU bug report logs - #22852
gzip-1.7 release coming soon

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Package: gzip;

Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:51:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 22845

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #12 received at 22852-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: 22852-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Rusty Russell <rusty <at> rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: bug#22852: gzip-1.7 release coming soon
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 09:01:00 -0800
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 8:49 AM, Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> wrote:
> [resending to the proper list -- first one went to bug-grep]
> Finally, here is a long-overdue upstream-ready --rsyncable
> patch for gzip. I've Cc'd Rusty Russel, who is listed as the author.
> I'll push this in the next day or so, so any improvements people
> can suggest in the mean time would be most welcome.
> Most of the changes came from some distro patches
> (not sure if it was debian or fedora, since I began this
> long ago). I added the test, the NEWS blurb, a few
> comments and the commit log.

Pushed as http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/commit/?id=d6d48f427b4839352437be9688142f6733028d22




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