** Description changed: - Please sync p7zip-rar 15.09-2 (multiverse) from Debian testing (non- - free) + Please sync p7zip-rar 15.09-2 (multiverse) from Debian testing (non-free) + ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - The version currently in xenial is 5 years old. - It is better to have the newer version in the LTS. - ---------------------------------------------------- + Rationale: + =========== + + * The version currently in xenial, 9.20.1, is 5 years old (released in + 2011). It is very beneficial for the users to have this newer version in + the LTS. It has many improvements and fixes. + + * The package comes from Debian testing, which means that: + - It compiles and up to date on all architectures it has previously been compiled for in unstable; + - It does not have release-critical bugs; + - All of its dependencies are satisfiable by packages already in testing, which is what the LTS is derived from; + - Installing the package does not break any packages currently in testing + + * Another sync request for p7zip 15.09 (which p7zip-rar depends on) is + filed here Bug #1563508 + + * Some specific RAR improvements are mentioned in the upstream changelog below + --------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + Version 15.09: + =============== + + - 7-Zip now can extract ext2 and multivolume VMDK images. + - 7-Zip now can extract ext3 and ext4 (Linux file system) images. + - support of cygwin 64 bits + - support of cygwin 64 bits with asm + - cygwin : fix in GetRamSize() + - cross building added : + makefile.linux_cross_aarch64 + makefile.linux_cross_arm + makefile.linux_cross_ppc + makefile.linux_cross_ppc64 + makefile.linux_cross_ppc64le + makefile.linux_cross_s390x (7za and 7zr pass tests, 7z does not pass tests) + + - 7-Zip now can extract GPT images and single file QCOW2, VMDK, VDI images. + - 7-Zip now can extract solid WIM archives with LZMS compression. + - 7-Zip now can extract RAR5 archives. + - 7-Zip now doesn't sort files by type while adding to solid 7z archive. + new -mqs switch to sort files by type while adding to solid 7z archive. + - 7-Zip now can create 7z, xz and zip archives with 1536 MB dictionary for LZMA/LZMA2. + - 7-Zip now can extract .zipx (WinZip) archives that use xz compression. + --------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + Version 9.38.1 + =============== + + - bug #145 "p7zip crashes while moving memory in MoveItems + ------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + Version 9.38 + ============= + + - patch #23 fixes "7z with unicode file name with surrogate pair is not handled well in Linux" + - bug #139 "password from commanline is visible in processes list" + Now the characters of the password are replaced with *. + - From Windows version of 7-zip + - bug#138 If you extract the password with # program crashes + 7z now supports long password in RAR 3 and 4. + -------------------------------------------------------------------- Changelog entries since current xenial version 9.20.1~ds.1-4: p7zip-rar (15.09-2) unstable; urgency=low - * Upload to unstable. - * Switch Vcs-Git to https, and Vcs-Browser to cgit. - * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.7. + * Upload to unstable. + * Switch Vcs-Git to https, and Vcs-Browser to cgit. + * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.7. - -- Robert Luberda <rob...@debian.org> Sun, 13 Mar 2016 09:49:59 +0100 + -- Robert Luberda <rob...@debian.org> Sun, 13 Mar 2016 09:49:59 +0100 p7zip-rar (15.09-1) experimental; urgency=low - * New upstream version. - * Synchronize patches from the p7zip package. This introduces 06-s390.patch, - 07-endian-detection.patch, and 08-mips.patch related to FTBFS fixes. - * Update p7zip dependency in debian/control. - * Switch debian/copyright to DEP-5 format. + * New upstream version. + * Synchronize patches from the p7zip package. This introduces 06-s390.patch, + 07-endian-detection.patch, and 08-mips.patch related to FTBFS fixes. + * Update p7zip dependency in debian/control. + * Switch debian/copyright to DEP-5 format. - -- Robert Luberda <rob...@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 2016 00:30:32 +0100 + -- Robert Luberda <rob...@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 2016 00:30:32 +0100
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