[needs-packaging] Intel quickassist (QAT) : zip compression library and application utility

[Hector CAO]

QATzip is a user space library which builds on top of the Intel® QuickAssist Technology user space library, to provide extended accelerated compression and decompression services by offloading the actual compression and decompression request(s) to the Intel® Chipset Series. QATzip produces data using the standard gzip* format (RFC1952) with extended headers or lz4* blocks with lz4* frame format. The data can be decompressed with a compliant gzip* or lz4* implementation. QATzip is designed to take full advantage of the performance provided by Intel® QuickAssist Technology.

This package depends on 1 package that is being integrated into Ubuntu:
- qatlib : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/2048895

[needs-packaging]:
Upstream: https://github.com/intel/QATzip
Package PPA: https://launchpad.net/~kobuk-team/+archive/ubuntu/qat-ubuntu/+packages
License: https://git.launchpad.net/~kobuk-team/ubuntu/+source/qatzip/tree/debian/copyright?h=main

Intel overview on QAT
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https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/intel-quick-assist-technology-overview.html

Debian overview on QAT
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https://wiki.debian.org/QAT

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

[Simon Chopin (schopin)]

Unsubscribing ubuntu-sponsors, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/2048895/comments/2

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello! Thank you for preparing the package! It looks good, but the debian/copyright needs tweaking. Could you fix the following and re upload?

 * debian/copyright: the "Source:" field seems to be wrong? It points to the QAT_Engine repository instead of the qatzip one.
 * debian/copyright: debian/* is rightfully licensed as GPL-3, but when it links to GPL-3 without providing it. Can you provide a GPL-3 section at the bottom or attach it to the statement?
 * (minor) while at it, can you provide a debian/watch file for tracking upstream releases?

Thanks!

[Hector CAO (hectorcao)]

Hi @sil2100, thanks for the review and great feedbacks, the package has been uploaded with requested fixes, please take a look again

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Thank you! Now approved!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package qatzip - 1.2.0-0ubuntu1

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qatzip (1.2.0-0ubuntu1) noble; urgency=medium

  * Initial release v1.1.2 (LP: #2048950)

 -- Hector Cao <email address hidden> Tue, 27 Feb 2024 13:32:55 +0100