On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 02:01:44PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 01:45:07PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > Don't. For .debs, that is. > > Scratch that. > > apt Depends: libapt-pkg5.0 Depends: libzstd1 > > While apt is "merely" priority:required rather than fully essential, a > Debian system without apt is so deeply embedded it already requires special > steps, thus there's probably no reason to bother. > > If apt has already taken the plunge, it's reasonable for dpkg to follow. > The "reduced essential set" guys will be unhappy, but as we're already > there, it's good to switch other users which need a general-purpose fast > good compressor (the "slow but strong" slot is providen by xz, "weak but > extremely fast" by lz4 -- libzstd happens to include a lz4 implementation).
I specifically called it experimental, and it might not be part of buster if it turns out to be not useful. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en