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xz-utils (4.999.9beta+20100212-2) unstable; urgency=low
The tiny xzdec and lzmadec decompressors have been moved to the new
xzdec package. One can use xzcat (which is an abbreviation for
xz --decompress --stdout”) to replace them where space is not a
premium.
-- Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:24:10 -0600
xz-utils (4.999.9beta+20100117-1) unstable; urgency=low
From this version on, xz produces sparse files by default when
decompressing. This saves disk space when reproducing files with long
runs of zero bytes, such as file system images. Implementing this
feature requires seeking forward beyond the end of a file so that the
operating system knows where to put in a hole.
If you use xz --decompress to write to end of a file that is appended
to at the same time by another process, this could cause concurrent
output from the other command to be overwritten. This is a rare and
quite weird thing to do. If you really want to do it, note that xzs
buffering strategy is not part of its documented interface; to safely
interleave concurrent output from xz and another command, a
construction such as
xz --decompress input.xz | dd ibs=1k obs=1k >> log
would be needed to avoid unpredictable results.
-- Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:51:37 -0600