Adding upstream version 1.12.upstream/1.12upstream

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

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+Changes in version 1.12:
+
+The zutils configuration file 'zutilsrc' has been renamed to 'zutils.conf'.
+Zutils now looks for the configuration file in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/zutils.conf
+instead of $HOME/.zutilsrc. (XDG_CONFIG_HOME defaults to $HOME/.config).
+(Suggested by Adam Tuja).
+
+In zcat, zcmp, zdiff, and zgrep, the option '-O, --force-format' now can
+force also "uncompressed" format.
+
+zcmp now accepts the option '-H, --hexadecimal' to print byte values in
+hexadecimal instead of octal.
+
+In zcmp:
+  The long name of option '-s' has been changed to '--script' following a
+  similar change made to GNU ed.
+
+  The short name '-q' has been assigned to options '--quiet' and '--silent'.
+
+  Option '-q' now only suppresses diagnostic messages written to stderr.
+
+  Option '-s' now only suppresses messages about file differences written to
+  stdout or stderr.
+
+  Option '-l, --list' is now different from option '-v, --verbose', which
+  now undoes the effect of '--quiet'.
+
+zcmp now prints byte and line in EOF message like GNU cmp:
+"zcmp: EOF on FILE after byte B, in line L".
+
+zgrep now also accepts the following options: '-G, --basic-regexp',
+'--label=<label>', '--line-buffered', '-P, --perl-regexp', '--silent',
+'-T, --initial-tab', '-U, --binary', and '-Z, --null'.
+(Reported by Chris Jamboretz and Leah Neukirchen).
+
+ztest now exits with status 2 if an uncompressed file has a compressed file
+name extension, or if a compressed file has a wrong compressed extension.
+
+zupdate now accepts option '-d, --destdir' to write recompressed files to
+another directory. This allows, for example, recompressing files from a
+read-only file system to another place without needing to copy or link them
+to the destination directory first.
+
+zupdate now accepts option '-e, --expand-extensions', which makes it expand
+combined file name extensions; tgz --> tar.lz.
+
+zupdate now also accepts option '-i, --ignore-errors', which makes it ignore
+non-fatal errors. (Suggested by Antoni Sawicki).
+
+All utilities now support compress'd (.Z) files through gzip. For this to
+work, the gzip program used (for example GNU gzip) must be able to
+decompress .Z files.
+
+At verbosity level 1 (2 for zdiff and zgrep) or higher, '-V, --version' now
+prints the versions of the compressors used (limited by option '-M, --format').
+(The compressors used must support option '-V' for this to work).
+
+Diagnostics caused by invalid arguments to command line options now show the
+argument and the name of the option.
+
+It has been documented in the manual that the data format is detected by its
+magic bytes, not by the file name extension.
+
+The testsuite now tests tarlz (if available) as compressor for zupdate.