I'm requesting a new sponsor for rzip [1], a compression program for large files. It achieves better compression than programs like gzip and bzip2 because it operates over larger chunks of the file; gzip and bzip2 examine less than a megabyte at a time while compressing data, but rzip looks at up to 900MB segments. rzip was written by Andrew Tridgell and is licensed under the GPL; you can find more information at http://rzip.samba.org/. rzip is already in the Debian archive. This update brings rzip from version 2.0 to 2.1. The primary item in the upstream changelog is "fixed a bug that could cause some files to not be able to be uncompressed". I've also included several patches, the most important of which are one that adds GNU-style long options and one that preserves file modification time across compression. As of 2.1-1, there are no outstanding bugs in the BTS. 2.1-1 is lintian and linda clean, builds in a pbuilder chroot, and passes piuparts tests. You can find source, diffs, and i386 debs at http://www.thened.net/~alec/debian/rzip/2.1-1/. Thanks for your time. [1] Stephen Stafford (bagpuss) was kind enough to sponsor my previous uploads but appears to have dropped off the face of the (Debian) earth; I haven't had a response from him since I contacted him a month ago, it's been six months since I can find any trace of him in the Debian archives, and his domain clothcat.org expired and was picked up by a squatter back in November.
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