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-oid sha256:58614b4fd32706bd8cd3664349ca9fd0c0488b27a211d829d29e27e4978ba1a9
-size 72233
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+oid sha256:ed8d0c9d9aac80a9110e9cb0d0a91a7390d3bf9f816b67a62ca4eb140f4747b8
+size 68354
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diff --git a/gnu_ddrescue.changes b/gnu_ddrescue.changes
index afc4c09..b4e9bed 100644
--- a/gnu_ddrescue.changes
+++ b/gnu_ddrescue.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,31 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Oct 11 13:59:40 UTC 2014 - jengelh@inai.de
+
+- Update to new upstream release 1.19
+* A race condition at start of run with "--timeout=0" has been
+  fixed.
+* The new option -P (--data-preview) which makes ddrescue show a
+  few lines of the latest data read, has been added.
+* The new option -u (--unidirectional), which runs all passes in
+  the same direction (forwards or backwards), has been added.
+* The new option -X (--exit-on-error), which makes ddrescue exit
+  after the first read error is encountered during the copying
+  phase, has been added.
+* New options --ask, --cpass, --pause were added.
+* The option -l (--logfile-size) has been removed.
+* Ddrescue now skips on the first error during the copying phase.
+* Trimming is now done in one pass and may be run in reverse.
+* The splitting phase has been replaced by a "scraping" phase that
+  scrapes together the data not recovered by the copying or trimming
+  phases. Scraping reads each non-scraped block forwards, one sector
+  at a time.
+* The long name of option "-n" has been changed to "--no-scrape".
+* During the retrying phase, the direction is now reversed after
+  each pass. Use --unidirectional to override.
+* The license has been changed to GPL version 2 or later.
+- Remove %gpg_verify; verification is now handled by
+  source validator.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jun 12 12:06:50 UTC 2014 - jengelh@inai.de
 
diff --git a/gnu_ddrescue.spec b/gnu_ddrescue.spec
index da41702..3fd952f 100644
--- a/gnu_ddrescue.spec
+++ b/gnu_ddrescue.spec
@@ -17,14 +17,13 @@
 
 
 Name:           gnu_ddrescue
-Version:        1.18.1
+Version:        1.19
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Data Copying in the Presence of I/O Errors
-License:        GPL-3.0+
+License:        GPL-2.0+
 Group:          System/Base
 Url:            http://gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
 
-#Freecode-URL:	http://freecode.com/projects/addrescue
 #DL-URL:	http://ftp.u-tx.net/gnu/ddrescue/
 Source:         http://ftp.u-tx.net/gnu/ddrescue/ddrescue-%version.tar.lz
 Source2:        http://ftp.u-tx.net/gnu/ddrescue/ddrescue-%version.tar.lz.sig
@@ -43,12 +42,11 @@ It is more memory and time efficient than dd_rescue+dd_rhelp on disks
 with more than a few hundred bad sectors.
 
 %prep
-%{?gpg_verify: %gpg_verify %{S:2}}
 %setup -qn ddrescue-%version
 
 %build
-# not autoconf, but at least it behaves like it.
-%configure CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" CXXFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS"
+# not autoconf, but at least it behaves (nearly) like it.
+%configure --enable-linux CFLAGS="%optflags" CXXFLAGS="%optflags"
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
 
 %install
@@ -65,5 +63,6 @@ make install DESTDIR="%buildroot";
 %_bindir/*
 %_mandir/man*/*
 %doc %_infodir/ddrescue*
+%doc COPYING NEWS README
 
 %changelog