gzip security update

[Tony Nelson]

At 9:31 PM -0700 10/10/06, jdow wrote:
>Does anybody other than me think it is a little peculiar that there
>was a listed update for gzip today that has an earlier version number
>than the one from the second?
>
>gzip-1.3.5-7.1.fc5.i386.rpm    October 2
>gzip-1.3.5-7.fc5.i386.rpm      October 10
>
>Did somebody screw up the version numbering?
>{^_^}

I checked the epoch (the default format doesn't show the epoch), but it was
not changed.  I checked the "new" package, and it has one less changelog
entry than the "old" .1 package.  So yes, there has been a screwup.

rpm -q --qf '%{name}-%{epoch}:%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n' gzip tar
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