Upstream zstd/zstandard support into Debian
Bug #2002057 reported by
KOLANICH
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| dpkg (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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| dpkg (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Non-supporting zstd by Debian `dpkg` causes interoperability issues. It may make sense to isolate the code implementing zstd support and upstream it into Debian.
Revision history for this message
| Julian Andres Klode (juliank) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in dpkg (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
Revision history for this message
| KOLANICH (kolanich) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in dpkg (Debian): | |
| status: | Unknown → Incomplete |
| Changed in dpkg (Debian): | |
| status: | Incomplete → Fix Committed |
| Changed in dpkg (Debian): | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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The code was submitted to Debian years before we started using it in Ubuntu, the rest is up to the Dpkg maintainer. We've tried long and hard to get this in multiple times but the dpkg maintainer eventually started working on multi-threaded xz decompression instead and dismissed the zstd approach.
My understanding is that the plan is to add decompression support before the Debian freeze as he finally got worn down enough by people complaining they can't host Ubuntu repositories on Debian systems and stuff.