[Lzip-bug] Pdlzip 1.7 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of pdlzip 1.7.

Pdlzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to 
the one of lzip, bzip2 or gzip.

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; it is essentially a raw LZMA stream. If 
you keep any lzma-alone files, it is advisable to recompress them to 
lzip format.

Pdlzip includes public domain (de)compression code from the LZMA SDK 
(Software Development Kit) written by Igor Pavlov. Pdlzip is in fact a 
permissively licensed implementation of the lzip data compressor, 
intended for those who can't distribute (or even use) GPL licensed Free 
Software.

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

The sources can be downloaded from 
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/pdlzip/

The sha1sums are:
8a95a12460dbba92b56c52e26a678135019ae680  pdlzip-1.7.tar.lz
3ebea4eacc73289e1bb39ba02706438a726bc1db  pdlzip-1.7.tar.gz

This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by 
appending ".sig" to the URL.

Changes in version 1.7:

  * 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.

  * When decompressing, the file specified with the '--output' option 
is now deleted if the input is a terminal.

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


Please send bug reports and suggestions to address@hidden


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