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Merging upstream version 1.7.

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Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
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@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ 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. Pdlzip is in fact a
"public domain" version of the lzip data compressor, intended for those
who can't distribute (or even use) GPL licensed Free Software.
permissively licensed implementation of the lzip data compressor,
intended for those who can't distribute (or even use) GPL licensed Free
Software. (The name of pdlzip comes from "public domain lzip").
The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term
archiving, taking into account both data integrity and decoder
@ -34,8 +35,10 @@ the help of lziprecover, losing an entire archive just because of a
corrupt byte near the beginning is a thing of the past.
Pdlzip is also able to decompress legacy lzma-alone (.lzma) files.
Lzma-alone is a very bad format. If you keep any lzma-alone files, it is
advisable to recompress them to lzip format.
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. Lziprecover can convert lzma-alone files to lzip format
without recompressing.
Pdlzip is written in C.
@ -49,7 +52,7 @@ users of the most non-free platforms can share lzip files with everybody
else.
Copyright (C) 2010-2015 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
Copyright (C) 2010-2016 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy,
distribute and modify it.