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Merging upstream version 0.28.1.

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Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
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Changes in version 0.27:
Changes in version 0.28:
tarlz now prints seconds since epoch if a file date is out of range.
The new option '-T, --files-from', which tells tarlz to read the file names
from a file, has been added.
tarlz now uses at least 4 digits to print years.
The new options '-R, --no-recursive' and '--recursive', have been added.
'tarlz -tv' now prints the value of typeflag after the member name for
unknown file types.
The new option '--depth', which tells tarlz to archive all entries in each
directory before archiving the directory itself, has been added.
tarlz now prints a diagnostic when it finds a corrupt tar header (or random
data where a tar header is expected).
The new options '--mount' and '--xdev', which tell tarlz to stay in the
local file system when creating an archive, have been added.
tarlz now diagnoses CRC mismatches in extended records separately.
The new option '--parallel', which tells tarlz to use multithreading to
create an uncompressed archive in parallel if the number of threads is
greater than 1, has been added. This is not the default because it uses much
more memory than sequential creation.
Multi-threaded decoding now prints diagnostics about CRC mismatches and
unknown keywords in extended records in the correct order.
The new debug operation '--time-bits', which makes tarlz print the size of
time_t in bits and exit, has been added.
Many small fixes and improvements have been made to the code and the manual.
The chapter 'Creating backups safely' has been added to the manual.
(Suggested by Aren Tyr).
Lzip is now required to run the tests because I have not found any other
portable and reliable way to tell compressed archives from non-compressed.
Where possible, .tar archives for the testsuite are now decompressed from
their .tar.lz versions instead of distributed.
'make check' no longer tests '--mtime' with extreme dates to avoid test
failures caused by differences with the system tool 'touch'.
(Reported by Aren Tyr).
5 new test files have been added to the testsuite.
The short option name '-?' has been assigned to '--help'.