[Lzip-bug] Pdlzip 1.7-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Pdlzip 1.7-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/pdlzip/pdlzip-1.7-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/pdlzip/pdlzip-1.7-rc1.tar.gz

The sha1sums are:
779f859664b018c58205467adef4ec9fac7a3adb  pdlzip-1.7-rc1.tar.lz
33b9c1209c4ce45a355d1e6bfa7c7c9b02ea0430  pdlzip-1.7-rc1.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Pdlzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to 
the one of lzip, bzip2 or gzip. Pdlzip includes public domain 
(de)compression code from the LZMA SDK (Software Development Kit) 
written by Igor Pavlov.

Pdlzip uses the lzip file format; the files produced by pdlzip are 
(hope)fully compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer. The lzip file format is 
designed for data sharing and long-term archiving, taking into account 
both data integrity and decoder availability.

Pdlzip is also able to decompress legacy lzma-alone (.lzma) files. 
Lzma-alone is a very bad format. If you keep any lzma-alone files, it is 
advisable to recompress them to lzip format.

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


Changes in this version:

  * The option "-a, --trailing-error", which makes pdlzip exit with 
error status 2 if any remaining input is detected after decompressing 
the last member, has been added.

  * A harmless check failure on Windows, caused by the failed 
comparison of a message in text mode, has been fixed.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, pdlzip co-author and maintainer.