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Merging upstream version 1.22.

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Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
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Changes in version 1.21:
Changes in version 1.22:
The options '--dump', '--remove' and '--strip' have been added, mainly as
support for the tarlz archive format: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/tarlz.html
These options replace '--dump-tdata', '--remove-tdata' and '--strip-tdata',
which are now aliases and will be removed in version 1.22.
The option '-e, --reproduce', which can recover a missing (zeroed) sector in
a lzip file, has been added. For it to work, two things are required:
- The same version of the lzip tool that created the file.
- A reference file containing the uncompressed data corresponding to the
missing compressed data of the zeroed sector, plus some context data
before and after them.
Thanks to Nissanka Gooneratne for his help in testing the reproduce mode.
'--dump=[<member_list>][:damaged][:tdata]' dumps the members listed, the
damaged members (if any), or the trailing data (if any) of one or more
regular multimember files to standard output.
The options '--lzip-level', '--lzip-name', and '--reference-file', auxiliary
to '-e, --reproduce', have been added.
'--remove=[<member_list>][:damaged][:tdata]' removes the members listed,
the damaged members (if any), or the trailing data (if any) from regular
multimember files in place.
Option aliases '--dump-tdata', '--remove-tdata', and '--strip-tdata' have
been removed.
'--strip=[<member_list>][:damaged][:tdata]' copies one or more regular
multimember files to standard output, stripping the members listed, the
damaged members (if any), or the trailing data (if any) from each file.
When decompressing or testing, lziprecover now reports an error if a file
name is empty (lziprecover -t "").
Detection of forbidden combinations of characters in trailing data has been
improved.
Option '-o, --output' now behaves like '-c, --stdout', but sending the
output unconditionally to a file instead of to standard output. See the new
description of '-o' in the manual. This change is backwards compatible only
when decompressing from standard input alone. Therefore commands like:
lziprecover -d -o foo - bar.lz < foo.lz
must now be split into:
lziprecover -d -o foo - < foo.lz
lziprecover -d bar.lz
or rewritten as:
lziprecover -d - bar.lz < foo.lz > foo
'--split' can now detect trailing data and gaps between members, and save
each gap in its own file. Trailing data (if any) are saved alone in the last
file. (Gaps may contain garbage or may be members with corrupt headers or
trailers).
When using '-c' or '-o', lziprecover now checks whether the output is a
terminal only once.
'--ignore-errors' now makes '--list' show gaps between members, ignoring
format errors.
Lziprecover now does not even open the output file if the input file is a
terminal.
'--ignore-errors' now makes '--range-decompress' ignore a truncated last
member.
'--ignore-errors' now makes '--decompress' and '--test' ignore data errors
and continue decompressing the remaining members in the file, keeping input
files unchanged.
Errors are now also checked when closing the input file in decompression
mode.
'--ignore-errors --range-decompress' now decompresses a truncated last
member. It also returns 0 if only ignored errors (format errors or data
errors) are found.
Some diagnostic messages have been improved.
'--ignore-errors' now considers that any fragment of file starting with a
valid header and large enough to be a member is a (corrupt) member, not a
gap, even if it lacks a valid trailer.
'\n' is now printed instead of '\r' when showing progress of merge or repair
if stdout is not a terminal.
The words 'decompressed' and 'compressed' have been replaced with the
shorter 'out' and 'in' in the verbose output when decompressing or testing.
Lziprecover now compiles on DOS with DJGPP. (Patch from Robert Riebisch).
Several compiler warnings have been fixed. (Reported by Nissanka Gooneratne).
The new chapter 'Tarlz', explaining the ways in which lziprecover can
recover and process multimember tar.lz archives, has been added to the
manual.
Option '--list' now reports corruption or truncation of the last header in a
multimenber file specifically instead of showing the generic message "Last
member in input file is truncated or corrupt."
The configure script now accepts appending options to CXXFLAGS using the
syntax 'CXXFLAGS+=OPTIONS'.
The debug options '-E, --debug-reproduce', '-M, --md5sum', and
'-U, --unzcrash' have been added.
It has been documented in INSTALL the use of
CXXFLAGS+='-D __USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO' when compiling on MinGW.
The commands needed to extract files from a tar.lz archive have been
documented in the manual, in the output of '--help', and in the man page.
The new chapter 'Reproducing one sector' has been added to the manual.
The new sections 'Merging with a backup' and 'Reproducing a mailbox' have
been added to the manual.
The debug options for experts have been documented in the manual.
Lzip 1.16 (or clzip 1.6) or newer is required to run the tests.
9 new test files have been added to the testsuite.