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Merging upstream version 1.3~pre1.

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Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
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@ -23,8 +23,9 @@ decompressed in parallel.
Plzip uses the lzip file format; the files produced by plzip are fully
compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer, and can be rescued with lziprecover.
The lzip file format is designed for long-term data 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
@ -39,8 +40,8 @@ into account both data integrity and decoder availability:
extract the data from a lzip file long after quantum computers
eventually render LZMA obsolete.
* Additionally lzip is copylefted, which guarantees that it will
remain free forever.
* Additionally the lzip reference implementation is copylefted, which
guarantees that it will remain free forever.
A nice feature of the lzip format is that a corrupt byte is easier to
repair the nearer it is from the beginning of the file. Therefore, with