Bug#592300: future unblock: xz-utils/5.0.0

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Julien Cristau wrote:

> What's up with this?  Do we still need more updates in squeeze?

I would like to upload version 4.999.9beta+20100927-1 to unstable.
Changes since 20100810 (testing):

  * New snapshot, taken from upstream commit cec0ddc.
    - liblzma: The meaning of --extreme has been tweaked to address
      cases in which it made the compression ratio worse.  Some files
      might benefit slightly less from --extreme.
    - xz: Table columns are not misaligned any more in messages with
      multi-byte characters (e.g., file sizes with LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8).
    - xz: New German and Italian translations.
    - Various documentation, message, and translation updates.
  * Update copyright file.
  * debian/rules get-orig-source: Update upstream Git URL.
  * xz-utils/README.Debian: Advertise XZ_DEFAULTS.

  * New snapshot, taken from upstream commit 373ee26.
    - liblzma: The settings for compression levels 0 through 5
      (used by xz -0/.../-5) have been tweaked.  This affects the
      speed, compression ratio, and memory usage at compression and
      decompression time.
    - Does not search so hard for a match when a low "nice match
      length" setting is specified without a depth.
    - xz: The -1/.../-9 preset options override any previously
      specified filters, rather than vice versa.  To mix presets
      with filter options, use the --lzma2=preset=n option.
    - xz: Warns about --memlimit-compress settings that result in
      compression settings changing even if no explicit -1/.../-9,
      --lzma1, or --lzma2 option was used.
    - "xz -v -v --compress" now prints an estimate of the memory
      required to decompress a file.
  * debian/copyright: Update upstream Git URL.
  * debian/changelog.upstream.sh: Permit terser changelog lines.
  * Standards-Version: 3.9.1 (checked).

You can find it (targetted at experimental) at

 git://git.debian.org/collab-maint/xz.git experimental
 http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xz-utils/xz-utils_4.999.9beta+20100927-1.dsc

The documentation is up to date now, so I would have no reservations
about including it in squeeze.

What do you think?
Jonathan