[Bug-tar] gzip 1.3.10 released for testing

[Paul Eggert]

I'm happy to announce the release of gzip 1.3.10.

gzip (GNU zip) is a popular data compression program written by
Jean-Loup Gailly for the GNU project; Mark Adler wrote the
decompression part.

This gzip release follows up on the release of gzip 1.3.9
two weeks ago, and attempts to fix correctness bugs I found
in the Debian bug database, most of which predate 1.3.9.  I
expect 1.3.10 to become an official release shortly, but am
putting it out for testing now, just in case.

Please report any problems to <address@hidden>.

The compressed sources are here:
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.3.10.tar.gz   (427 kB)

The GPG detached signature is here:
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.3.10.tar.gz.sig

Here are the MD5 and SHA512 digests:

8b6f74a5060f984dceb0fee877aed854  gzip-1.3.10.tar.gz
b4b707f1777b63e0bee5e5ad69d31ed62ed02a1b60a01ef17334d80eff379ea4068ee487cb0867a4aeeeae2f783592a4e39c2c763ffd7735a3ff6ebea4f8ed2f
  gzip-1.3.10.tar.gz

Here are URLs to the ChangeLog entries since the most recent
version (1.3.9):

http://cvs.sv.gnu.org/viewcvs/gzip/gzip/ChangeLog?r1=1.32&r2=1.44

Here are the major changes since 1.3.9, reported in the NEWS file:

* gzip -c and zcat now work on special files, files with special mode bits,
  and files with multiple hard links.
* gzip -q now exits with status 2 (not 1) when SIGPIPE is received.
* zcmp and zdiff did not work in the usual case, due to a typo.
* zgrep has many bugs fixed with argument handling, special characters,
  and exit status.
* zless no longer mishandles $%=~ in file names.