zstd compression for packages

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Mon Mar 12 14:19:18 UTC 2018


On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 10:02:49AM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 6:06 AM, Julian Andres Klode
> <julian.klode at canonical.com> wrote:
> > We are considering requesting a FFe for that - the features are not
> > invasive, and it allows us to turn it on by default in 18.10.
> 
> What does Debian's dpkg maintainer think?

FWIW, I'd be quite reluctant to add support for this to Launchpad until
it's landed in Debian dpkg/apt; a future incompatibility would be very
painful to deal with.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]



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