Adding upstream version 0.23.upstream/0.23upstream

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

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+Changes in version 0.23:
+
+Tarlz now can create and decode the extended records 'atime' and 'mtime',
+allowing times beyond the ustar range (before 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC or
+after 2242-03-16 12:56:31 UTC).
+
+Tarlz now can create and decode the extended records 'uid' and 'gid',
+allowing user and group IDs beyond the ustar limit of 2_097_151.
+
+The new option '--ignore-overflow', which makes '-d, --diff' ignore
+differences in mtime caused by overflow on 32-bit systems, has been added.
+
+Tarlz now refuses to read archive data from a terminal or write archive data
+to a terminal. (Reported by DustDFG).
+
+In the date format of option '--mtime' the time of day 'HH:MM:SS' is now
+optional and defaults to '00:00:00'. Both space and 'T' are now accepted as
+separator between date and time.
+
+Diagnostics caused by invalid arguments to command line options now show the
+argument and the name of the option.
+
+Tarlz now diagnoses separately the failure to create an intermediate
+directory during extraction.
+
+Failure to extract a member due to environmental problems is no longer fatal
+in serial extraction. (It was already non-fatal in parallel extraction).
+
+The diagnostics emitted by the parallel decoder should now be identical to
+the corresponding diagnostics of the serial decoder.
+
+Column alignment has been improved in listings by printing "user/group size"
+in a field of minimum width 19 with at least 8 characters for size.
+
+The diagnostic shown when the filesystem reports a wrong st_size for a
+symbolic link has been improved. (Reported by Jason Lenz).
+
+The diagnostic "File is the archive" has been changed to "Archive can't
+contain itself" following a similar change made by Paul Eggert to GNU tar.
+
+The warning "Removing leading '/' from member names." is now not shown when
+compressing nor if the member causing it is excluded.
+
+The texinfo category of the manual has been changed from 'Data Compression'
+to 'Archiving' to match that of GNU tar.
+
+'end-of-archive' (EOA) is now used consistently to refer to the blocks of
+binary zeros used to mark the end of the archive.
+
+Operations are now listed before options in the --help output and in the
+manual.
+
+Many small improvements have been made to the code and documentation.