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Bug #871083: gzip -9n sometimes generates a different output file on different architectures

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12. By Steve Langasek on 2012-02-08

releasing version 1.4-1ubuntu2

11. By Steve Langasek on 2012-02-08

debian/patches/zeroify-buffers.diff: clear gzip buffers between
files. Thanks to Cyril Brulebois <email address hidden>.
Closes: #647522, LP: #871083.

10. By Martin Pitt on 2011-10-19

* Merge with Debian testing. Remaining Ubuntu changes:
  - debian/{control,rules}: Remove the Win32 build and mingw64
    build-dependency, since mingw is in universe, and will remain so for
    the forseeable future.

9. By Marcel Stimberg <email address hidden> on 2010-08-04

Backport fix from upstream commit
b9e94c93df914bd1d9eec9f150b2e4e00702ae7b: inflate.c (inflate_codes):
Don't call memcpy with overlapping regions. (Closes LP #524366)

8. By Martin Pitt on 2010-01-27

* Merge from debian testing. Remaining changes:
  - debian/{control,rules}: Remove the Win32 build (and mingw32
    build-dependency), since mingw32 is in universe, and will remain so for
    the forseeable future.

7. By Martin Pitt on 2009-04-28

* Merge with Debian; remaining Ubuntu changes:
  - debian/{control,rules}: Remove the Win32 build (and mingw32
    build-dependency), since mingw32 is in universe, and will remain so for
    the forseeable future.

6. By Martin Pitt on 2008-10-15

debian/rules: Fix installation path for man and info pages. Thanks to
Martijn van de Streek for the patch! (LP: #281825)

5. By Adam Conrad on 2008-07-04

Remove the Win32 build (and mingw32 build-dependency), since mingw32
is in universe, and will remain so for the forseeable future.

4. By Bdale Garbee on 2008-04-15

* strip the win32 gzip.exe binary during install, closes: #464455
* patch from Reuben Thomas for the zless.1 man page with pointers to
  lessfile and lesspipe, which are a better solution than zless in most
  cases... closes: #46787, #51162
* fix FTBFS when using gcc-4.3, closes: #476031
* remove the preinst since the --assert-support-predepends check should
  no longer be necessary

3. By Bdale Garbee on 2006-09-19

security update, covering the following alerts:
CVE-2006-4334 CVE-2006-4335 CVE-2006-4336 CVE-2006-4337 CVE-2006-4338