Old Standard Compression Utilities

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This package contains the compress and uncompress utilities as
described in POSIX. They were the standard on old UNIX systems and are
obsoleted by gzip today

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ncompress-4.2.4.5.tar.gz 0000035562 34.7 KB
ncompress.changes 0000006465 6.31 KB
ncompress.spec 0000001956 1.91 KB
Revision 6 (latest revision is 8)
Dominique Leuenberger's avatar Dominique Leuenberger (dimstar_suse) accepted request 754459 from Martin Pluskal's avatar Martin Pluskal (pluskalm) (revision 6)
- Update to version 4.2.4.5:
  * New homepage https://github.com/vapier/ncompress
  * Switch to intmax_t for nlink_t fields when printing
  * Make builds more reproducible by dropping datestamps
  * Fix integer overflow in maxmaxcode computation by Jakub Wilk
  * Don't leak file descriptor in error cases by Pavel Raiskup
  * Drop 8.3 filename checks for old DOS/Windows
  * Change signal ifdef logic to the signal names
  * Fix -Werror=parentheses errors with newer compilers
  * Define LSTAT=1 in modern builds by default
  * Change pathnames to be dynamic to avoid hardcoded 1k limit
  * Add a standard -h (help) option
  * Change version output to go to stdout
  * Start a testsuite!
  * Add support for -- to halt option parsing
  * Add a uncompress(1) link to compress(1)
- Drop all upstreamed patches:
  * ncompress-2GB.patch
  * ncompress-4.2.4.4-drop-datestamp.patch
  * ncompress-4.2.4.4-filenamelen.patch
  * ncompress-4.2.4.4-lfs2.patch
  * ncompress-4.2.4-endians.patch
  * ncompress-4.2.4-make.patch
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