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14600	Change p7zip to p7zip-17.03 (new upstream location)	Douglas R. Reno	Douglas R. Reno	"As mentioned by Ryan Marsaw on 1/30/2021 on blfs-dev, p7zip has been forked and is now actively maintained. The fixes that we have in the book have been put into this version as well.

Here's a copy of the email:

{{{
On 1/30/21 1:44 PM, Ryan Marsaw via blfs-dev wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> When I noticed that p7zip hadn't had a new release in nearly 5 years I
> checked to see if perhaps this package was picked up by someone else.
> Sure enough, I came across a fork of p7zip here:
>
> https://github.com/jinfeihan57/p7zip/
>
> The page has this under the ""About"" section:
>
> ""A new p7zip fork with additional codecs and
> improvements (forked from https://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/).""
>
> The fixes introduced by the BLFS p7zip patch are incorporated in this
> fork, and as far as I can see the build process is exactly same as the
> one for the existing p7zip.
>
> Cheers,
>   Ryan 
}}}

I'd like an opinion or two before I proceed with this though."	enhancement	closed	normal	10.1	BOOK	SVN	medium	fixed