Merging upstream version 1.11.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>

README

@@ -1,32 +1,33 @@
 Description
 
-Clzip is a C language version of lzip, fully compatible with lzip-1.4 or
+Clzip is a C language version of lzip, fully compatible with lzip 1.4 or
 newer. As clzip is written in C, it may be easier to integrate in
 applications like package managers, embedded devices, or systems lacking
 a C++ compiler.
 
 Lzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the
-one of gzip or bzip2. Lzip can compress about as fast as gzip (lzip -0),
+one of gzip or bzip2. Lzip can compress about as fast as gzip (lzip -0)
 or compress most files more than bzip2 (lzip -9). Decompression speed is
 intermediate between gzip and bzip2. Lzip is better than gzip and bzip2
-from a data recovery perspective.
+from a data recovery perspective. Lzip has been designed, written and
+tested with great care to replace gzip and bzip2 as the standard
+general-purpose compressed format for unix-like systems.
 
-The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term
-archiving, taking into account both data integrity and decoder
-availability:
+The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term archiving,
+taking into account both data integrity and decoder availability:
 
    * The lzip format provides very safe integrity checking and some data
-     recovery means. The lziprecover program can repair bit-flip errors
+     recovery means. The lziprecover program can repair bit flip errors
      (one of the most common forms of data corruption) in lzip files,
      and provides data recovery capabilities, including error-checked
      merging of damaged copies of a file.
 
    * The lzip format is as simple as possible (but not simpler). The
-     lzip manual provides the source code of a simple decompressor along
-     with a detailed explanation of how it works, so that with the only
-     help of the lzip manual it would be possible for a digital
-     archaeologist to extract the data from a lzip file long after
-     quantum computers eventually render LZMA obsolete.
+     lzip manual provides the source code of a simple decompressor
+     along with a detailed explanation of how it works, so that with
+     the only help of the lzip manual it would be possible for a
+     digital archaeologist to extract the data from a lzip file long
+     after quantum computers eventually render LZMA obsolete.
 
    * Additionally the lzip reference implementation is copylefted, which
      guarantees that it will remain free forever.
@@ -36,15 +37,14 @@ repair the nearer it is from the beginning of the file. Therefore, with
 the help of lziprecover, losing an entire archive just because of a
 corrupt byte near the beginning is a thing of the past.
 
-Clzip uses the same well-defined exit status values used by lzip and
-bzip2, which makes it safer than compressors returning ambiguous warning
-values (like gzip) when it is used as a back end for other programs like
-tar or zutils.
+Clzip uses the same well-defined exit status values used by lzip, which
+makes it safer than compressors returning ambiguous warning values (like
+gzip) when it is used as a back end for other programs like tar or zutils.
 
-Clzip will automatically use the smallest possible dictionary size for
-each file without exceeding the given limit. Keep in mind that the
-decompression memory requirement is affected at compression time by the
-choice of dictionary size limit.
+Clzip will automatically use for each file the largest dictionary size
+that does not exceed neither the file size nor the limit given. Keep in
+mind that the decompression memory requirement is affected at
+compression time by the choice of dictionary size limit.
 
 The amount of memory required for compression is about 1 or 2 times the
 dictionary size limit (1 if input file size is less than dictionary size
@@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ anyothername   becomes   anyothername.out
 
 (De)compressing a file is much like copying or moving it; therefore clzip
 preserves the access and modification dates, permissions, and, when
-possible, ownership of the file just as "cp -p" does. (If the user ID or
+possible, ownership of the file just as 'cp -p' does. (If the user ID or
 the group ID can't be duplicated, the file permission bits S_ISUID and
 S_ISGID are cleared).
 
 Clzip is able to read from some types of non regular files if the
-"--stdout" option is specified.
+'--stdout' option is specified.
 
 If no file names are specified, clzip compresses (or decompresses) from
 standard input to standard output. In this case, clzip will decline to
 write compressed output to a terminal, as this would be entirely
 incomprehensible and therefore pointless.
 
-Clzip will correctly decompress a file which is the concatenation of two
-or more compressed files. The result is the concatenation of the
-corresponding decompressed files. Integrity testing of concatenated
-compressed files is also supported.
+Clzip will correctly decompress a file which is the concatenation of two or
+more compressed files. The result is the concatenation of the corresponding
+decompressed files. Integrity testing of concatenated compressed files is
+also supported.
 
 Clzip can produce multimember files, and lziprecover can safely recover
 the undamaged members in case of file damage. Clzip can also split the
@@ -115,8 +115,12 @@ the definition of Markov chains), G.N.N. Martin (for the definition of
 range encoding), Igor Pavlov (for putting all the above together in
 LZMA), and Julian Seward (for bzip2's CLI).
 
+LANGUAGE NOTE: Uncompressed = not compressed = plain data; it may never
+have been compressed. Decompressed is used to refer to data which have
+undergone the process of decompression.
 
-Copyright (C) 2010-2018 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
+
+Copyright (C) 2010-2019 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
 
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 distribute and modify it.