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 Mar 14, 2010: libarchive 2.8.2 released
 Mar 12, 2010: Fix NULL deference for short self-extracting zip archives.
 Mar 12, 2010: Don't dereference symlinks on Linux when reading ACLs.
-Mar 07, 2010: Better detction of SHA2 support for old OpenSSL versions.
+Mar 07, 2010: Better detection of SHA2 support for old OpenSSL versions.
 Mar 07, 2010: Fix parsing of input files for bsdtar -T.
 Mar 07, 2010: Do not leak setup_xattr into the global namespace.