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diff --git a/ed-1.8.tar.gz b/ed-1.8.tar.gz
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diff --git a/ed.changes b/ed.changes
index 72af05d..5d25262 100644
--- a/ed.changes
+++ b/ed.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,30 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Apr 26 08:28:40 UTC 2013 - mvyskocil@suse.com
+
+- update to 1.8 
+  + Ed now stops reading stdin when reaching real End Of File the first
+    time. (Before it needed to reach EOF twice).
+  + Show the "Try 'ed --help' for more information." message if a bad
+    option is given in the command line.
+  + Quote characters in messages have been changed as advised by GNU
+    Coding Standards.
+  + The description of address offsets in the manual and a link to the
+    Bash manual have been fixed.
+  + Displaying of null characters by the "l" command has been fixed.
+  + The condition deciding when to show the message "Newline appended" has
+    been corrected.
+  + The "modified" flag is now set when reading a non-empty file into
+    an empty buffer.
+  + An error that prevented using NUL characters in regular expressions
+    has been fixed.
+  + Ed now signals an error if it can't create a shell process when
+    executing a shell command.
+  + Ed now flushes stdout/stderr before reading a new command.
+  + Man page is now generated with "help2man". All command-line options
+    are now documented in the man page.
+- use gpg-offline to verify the package tarball
+- adapt the Summary and Description according current README
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Mar 26 08:23:07 UTC 2013 - mmeister@suse.com
 
diff --git a/ed.keyring b/ed.keyring
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..07f79b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ed.keyring
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+pub   1024D/132D7742 2003-09-17
+uid                  Antonio Diaz <ant_diaz@teleline.es>
+sub   1024g/754578DA 2003-09-17
+
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diff --git a/ed.spec b/ed.spec
index cec70fb..7b96751 100644
--- a/ed.spec
+++ b/ed.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
-# spec file for package ed (Version 1.5)
+# spec file for package ed
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2010 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2013 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -15,21 +15,37 @@
 # Please submit bugfixes or comments via http://bugs.opensuse.org/
 #
 
+
 Name:           ed
-Url:            http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/
+Version:        1.8
+Release:        0
+Summary:        GNU ed is a line-oriented text editor
 License:        GPL-3.0+ and LGPL-2.1+
 Group:          Productivity/Editors/Other
-PreReq:         %install_info_prereq
-Version:        1.6
-Release:        1
-Summary:        Standard UNIX Line Editor
-Source:         http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+Url:            http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/
+Source0:        http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+Source1:        http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz.sig
+Source2:        ed.keyring
+%if 0%{?suse_version} >= 1230
+BuildRequires:  gpg-offline
+%endif
+Requires(pre):   %install_info_prereq
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 
 %description
-The standard, old Unix line editor.
+GNU ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display,
+modify and otherwise manipulate text files, both interactively and via
+shell scripts. A restricted version of ed, red, can only edit files in
+the current directory and cannot execute shell commands. Ed is the
+"standard" text editor in the sense that it is the original editor for
+Unix, and thus widely available. For most purposes, however, it is
+superseded by full-screen editors such as GNU Emacs or GNU Moe.
 
 %prep
+%if 0%{?suse_version} >= 1230
+%gpg_verify %{SOURCE1}
+%endif
+
 %setup -q
 sed -i \
     -e "s/CFLAGS='.*/CFLAGS='%{optflags}'/" \