bug#29239: FYI: tests: unpack-invalid: correct and clean up a test

2017-11-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Noticed the problem incidentally, I've just pushed this: tests: unpack-invalid: correct and clean up a test * tests/unpack-invalid: There was a logic error that would have caused this test to ignore a failure if first iteration of the loop set fail=1 and the second one reset it to

bug#29240: new snapshot available: gzip-1.8.40-9dff

2017-11-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Here's another pre-release snapshot. Please give it a whirl and report the results. Thanks again for all the feedback on the last one. The sole change to NEWS is this revamped paragraph: When converting from system-dependent time_t format to the 32-bit unsigned MTIME format used in gzip files