Adding upstream version 0.27.

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

NEWS

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-Changes in version 0.26:
+Changes in version 0.27:
 
-tarlz now exits with error status 2 if any empty lzip member is found in a
-multimember compressed archive.
+tarlz now prints seconds since epoch if a file date is out of range.
 
-Scalability of parallel compressed creation and decoding has been increased.
+tarlz now uses at least 4 digits to print years.
 
-A diagnostic message for read error has been improved.
+'tarlz -tv' now prints the value of typeflag after the member name for
+unknown file types.
 
-The chapter 'Syntax of command-line arguments' has been added to the manual.
+tarlz now prints a diagnostic when it finds a corrupt tar header (or random
+data where a tar header is expected).
 
-'make check' now skips time stamps out of range or not recognized by system
-tools. (Reported by J Dean).
+tarlz now diagnoses CRC mismatches in extended records separately.
+
+Multi-threaded decoding now prints diagnostics about CRC mismatches and
+unknown keywords in extended records in the correct order.
+
+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.