bug#30029: gzip-1.9 released [stable]

[Michael]

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This is to announce gzip-1.9, a stable release.
There have been 53 commits by 2 people in the 89 weeks since 1.8.
Thanks to Paul Eggert for all of his help.
See the NEWS below for a brief summary.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
Jim Meyering (28)
Paul Eggert (25)
Jim [on behalf of the gzip maintainers]
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32-bit results - I package both sizes - in case there is an library
interface. However, applications are only available in 64-bit.

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Testsuite summary for gzip 1.9
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# TOTAL: 21
# PASS:  18
# SKIP:  1
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  2
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
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See tests/test-suite.log
Please report to bug-***@gnu.org
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a:
  +826  + eval 'env $i  zin.gz < $tmp_in > $tmp_out'
  +827  ++ env zless zin.gz
  +828  /data/prj/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.9/tests/../zless[71]: less:  not found
  +829  + echo FAIL: zless
  +830  FAIL: zless
  +831  + fail=1

  +891  FAIL: timestamp
  +892  ===============
This is to be expected - I expect - with 32-bit timestamp (OBJECT_MODE=32)

64-bit results

============================================================================
Testsuite summary for gzip 1.9
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# TOTAL: 21
# PASS:  19
# SKIP:  1
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL:  1
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
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See tests/test-suite.log
Please report to bug-***@gnu.org
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Again, less is still not installed.