Package: gzip Version: 1.6-5 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, I came to know that gzip v1.8 was released quite sometime back but it isn't in Debian :(
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-04/msg00012.html Release can be seen at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.8.tar.xz or/and http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.8.tar.gz . I did see the debian/watch file is acting fine sharing about the new release. I cloned the gzip repo. and did a shortlog comparison between the two tagged releases to know what changed - ┌─[shirish@debian] - [~/games/gzip] - [10088] └─[$] git shortlog v1.6..v1.8 Jason Leschnik (1): doc: correct a diagnostic in man page to match actual Jim Meyering (26): maint: post-release administrivia maint: update gnulib to latest and adapt streamsavedir usage maint: update copyright year range in gzip.texi maint: udpate all copyright notices via "make update-copyright" gnulib+bootstrap: update to latest maint: avoid false positive match in check for double semicolon maint: enable more syntax checks maint: move new NEWS entry into block for upcoming release maint: update copyright year ranges to include 2015; update gnulib gnulib: update to latest maint: ensure that --version's copyright date is current maint: remove dead code build: avoid -Wshift-negative-value warning maint: adjust copyright notices in *.in files to be consistent maint: avoid three warnings from the very latest gcc-built-from-git maint: update copyright year, bootstrap, init.sh maint: dist-check.mk: remove .deps dirs before comparing tests: fix "make check" failure on AIX 7.1 tests: port to systems for which ":" is not the PATH separator maint: don't ignore gitlog-to-changelog failure gnulib: update to latest gzip: also honor GZIP=--rsyncable version 1.7 maint: post-release administrivia gnulib: update to latest version 1.8 Paul Eggert (38): maint: port to platforms lacking SIGPIPE doc: zgrep exit status, unsupported options tests: zgrep-context assumes grep knows context gzip: port util.c to Compaq C V6.5-303 zgrep: usage should say which grep options are not supported tests: zgrep-signal race condition fix Fix spelling typo in newly-added comment. znew: avoid denial-of-service issue gzip: fix permissions issue on Solaris-like systems zless: improve gzip failure checking, and port to new -V format maint: update .gitignore files doc: use UTF-8 in the manual zgrep: exit with status 0 if a file matches and there's no trouble gzip: fix --suffix=z bug (Bug#18239) tests: use local dir for output gzip: adjust -v output when -k is also specified maint: adjust to recent gnulib gzip: make the GZIP env var obsolescent fsync output file before closing gzip: fdatasync output dir before unlinking gzip: use constants, not fileno gzip: new option --synchronous misc: update --version copyright gzip: remove --__bindir gzip: port zgrep to Solaris 11.2 gzip: minor zgrep cleanup doc: minor --rsyncable doc fixes gzip: pacify clang gzip: port to AIX 7.1 + xlc V12.1 zgrep: with -f SPECIAL, read SPECIAL just once Port to Solaris 11 /bin/sh Fix typo in previous patch Port to Alpine Linux which uses Busybox * tests/init.sh: Sync from Gnulib. Port to NetBSD 7.0 Port to Oracle Solaris Studio 12.4 gzip: fix bug with -l output to pipes gzip: simplify by closing ourselves Rusty Russell (1): gzip: support the --rsyncable option FWIW I also did a changelog comparison between v1.6..v1.7 and v1.7...v1.8 I did take a brief look at the changelog and while I have no idea of gzip internals, most of the changelog seems to be about the compile/build-depends to be current (new versions) and removal of dead code (probably some code refactoring) . As we are in freeze, we could use experimental to try those changes. If you make a .deb package of either 1.7 or 1.8 I'll be happy to test the changes for you and report if it has any show-stopper bugs. Looking forward to hearing form you. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gzip depends on: ii dpkg 1.18.22 ii install-info 6.3.0.dfsg.1-1+b1 ii libc6 2.24-9 gzip recommends no packages. Versions of packages gzip suggests: ii less 481-2.1 -- no debconf information -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8
