The bzip2 package

Package announcement

Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 08:30:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: noreply@freshmeat.net
To: noreply@freshmeat.net
Subject: [fmII] bzip2 1.0.3 released (Default branch)

This email is to inform you about the release of version '1.0.3' of 'bzip2'
through freshmeat.net. All URLs and other useful information can be found
at

    http://freshmeat.net/projects/bzip2/

The changes in this release are as follows:
This release enhances the robustness against corrupted compressed
data. Upgrading is recommended. Documentation bugs have been fixed.
Building on 64-bit platforms and with gcc4 was improved.

Release focus:
8 - Minor security fixes

Project added:
Wed, Apr 15th 1998 13:35 (6 years, 12 months ago)

Project description:
bzip2 is a portable, lossless data compressor based on the
Burrows-Wheeler transform. It achieves good compression and runs on
practically every (32/64-bit) platform in the known universe. The
compression engine is also available as a library (libbz2), should
you desire a programmatic interface.

Trove categories:
[Environment         ] Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience   ] End Users/Desktop
[License             ] OSI Approved :: BSD License (original)
[Topic               ] System :: Archiving :: Compression

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Source and support files

 Name                           Last modified          Size Description

 bzip2-1.0.3.tar.gz             2005-02-17T08:13     653 kB bzip2 version 1.0.3
 bzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz             2002-03-23T11:36     649 kB bzip2 version 1.0.2

All of these files are also available from /mnt/n.ml.org/site.dist/bzip2/

for i in site.dist site.archive; do mkdir -p /mnt/n.ml.org/${i} && mount peanutbutter.n.ml.org:/export/${i} /mnt/n.ml.org/${i} -o tcp,rsize=32768,intr; done

bash /mnt/n.ml.org/site.dist/bzip2.sh
The URLs presented above are time-coded and will remain valid until the contents of this directory changes,
at which time visitors following direct links will be presented with the new index instead of the requested content.

Extra package information

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