Comment 7 for bug 1947810

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Athos Ribeiro (athos-ribeiro) wrote :

I rebased the patch on the newest version and filed a new MP at [1].

The package is available in a PPA at [2].

When I first prepared this patch, I stumbled upon [3], where there was some resistance in hard coding a compression format upstream due to the technical debt it could cause. Specially when we would want to revert the change once [4] is accepted. Still, I am submitting it there as suggested [5].

I ran the dep8 test suite locally, here is the result summary:

On a note for my future self, when reviewing this bug I started wondering (for the second time) why we are only seeing this in Debian an not in older Ubuntu releases. The reason is because zstd support was back-ported all the way down to xenial.

[1] https://code.launchpad.net/~athos-ribeiro/ubuntu/+source/autopkgtest/+git/autopkgtest/+merge/412406
[2] https://launchpad.net/~athos-ribeiro/+archive/ubuntu/autopkgtest-use-xz/+packages
[3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=883167
[4] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892664
[5] https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/-/merge_requests/133