[Lzip-bug] Lzd 1.2 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of lzd 1.2.

Lzd is a simplified decompressor for the lzip format with an educational 
purpose. Studying its source is a good first step to understand how lzip 
works. Lzd is written in C++.

The source of lzd is used in the lzip manual as a reference decompressor in 
the description of the lzip file format. Reading the lzip manual will help 
you understand the source. Lzd is compliant with the lzip specification; it 
verifies the 3 integrity factors.

The source of lzd is also used as a reference in the specification of the 
media type 'application/lzip'. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-diaz-lzip-02

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

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

The sha256sums are:
2c6006d3e527b67f41bcbced42fb3134f54031f1b9c59aa5ca813e43087a2928  lzd-1.2.tar.lz
6f7d8bd1c6f7f7effd4bfc02b5b73bf91703cbe0e9b9231eb3fcae20d2de203a  lzd-1.2.tar.gz


Changes in version 1.2:

  * Mismatches in member size are now verified. Lzd is now compliant with 
the lzip specification; it verifies the 3 integrity factors.

  * Lzd now accepts (and ignores) the option '-d'. This allows it to be 
used as argument to the option '--lz' of the tools from the zutils package.

  * The warning about "lzd not safe for real work" has been removed. (Lzd 
is safe, just not very convenient to use).

  * 10 new test files have been added to the testsuite.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzd author and maintainer.
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If you care about data safety and long-term archiving, please consider using 
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http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/safety_of_the_lzip_format.html Thanks.