Bug#892664: dpkg: Please add support for zstd (Zstandard) compressed packages

Sorry to bother, but I heard rumors about potential progress, just found no update here yet. Was there a decision made, or are there even changes pending now?

Bug#892664: dpkg: Please add support for zstd (Zstandard) compressed packages

Hi! [ Sorry, have been meaning to update this report, as I've mentioned when updating directly people that asked about the current state of it on IRC, but seems I never got to it, besides what was already covered on the debian-devel mailing list. ] On Sat, 2022-04-09 at 18:52:07 +0200,

Bug#892664: dpkg: Please add support for zstd (Zstandard) compressed packages

Hi Guillem, would you maybe reconsider adding zstd decompression support at this time? On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 04:38:15AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > So, the items that come to mind (most from the dpkg FAQ [F]: > > * Availability in general Unix systems would be one. I think the code >

Bug#892664: dpkg: Please add support for zstd (Zstandard) compressed packages

Hi Marcel, Can you verify that you are not using as a file descriptor the address of the struct "compress_params"? diff --git a/lib/dpkg/compress.c b/lib/dpkg/compress.c index 43d4fd063..c92324935 100644 --- a/lib/dpkg/compress.c +++ b/lib/dpkg/compress.c @@ -930,7 +930,7 @@ static const struct

Bug#892664: dpkg: Please add support for zstd (Zstandard) compressed packages

[…] Follow-up: forgot to set up linking with zstd lib in Makefile.am, thanks to Bernardo Bandos for picking that one up. Commits on my zstd-rebased branch. The tests keep failing at `dpkg-deb -c pkg-data-zst.deb`, which fails with dpkg-deb (subprocess): ZSTD_decompressStream error : Unknown

Bug#892664: dpkg: Please add support for zstd (Zstandard) compressed packages

Dear Guillem et al., don't know whether there already has been that called-for discussion on debian-devel about the technical burden of zstd support in dpkg. But obviously, ubuntu's move to compress debs with zstd by default in July last year (in favor of better UX) has made picking packages

Bug#892664: dpkg: Please add support for zstd (Zstandard) compressed packages

Hi Tomas, Tomas Pospisek ezt írta (időpont: 2021. nov. 28., V, 16:25): > > Rustam wrote on 12 Oct 2021: > > > Hi Guillem, > > Any news on the proposed patch? > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892664#49 > > Can it be merged already? ;) > > Ubuntu packages are already using

Bug#892664: dpkg: Please add support for zstd (Zstandard) compressed packages

Rustam wrote on 12 Oct 2021: Hi Guillem, Any news on the proposed patch? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892664#49 Can it be merged already? ;) Ubuntu packages are already using zstd compression. So tools like Mainline don't work on Debian any more, see e.g.

Bug#892664: dpkg: Please add support for zstd (Zstandard) compressed packages

Hi Guillem, Any news on the proposed patch? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892664#49 Can it be merged already? ;) Ubuntu packages are already using zstd compression. So tools like Mainline don't work on Debian any more, see e.g. https://github.com/bkw777/mainline/issues/121

Bug#892664: dpkg: Please add support for zstd (Zstandard) compressed packages

On Tue, 2021-08-10 at 00:37:51 -0500, Samuel Johnston wrote: > The Linux kernel is now supplying modules compressed with zstd. Version > updates for 5.12 and 5.13 are unable to be installed anymore on Debian due > to this issue being unresolved. I'm not sure how that is related to this report?

Bug#892664: dpkg: Please add support for zstd (Zstandard) compressed packages

The Linux kernel is now supplying modules compressed with zstd. Version updates for 5.12 and 5.13 are unable to be installed anymore on Debian due to this issue being unresolved. Thanks, Sam Johnston On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 19:19:05 +0100 Balint Reczey < balint.rec...@canonical.com> wrote: > Hi

Bug#892664: dpkg: Please add support for zstd (Zstandard) compressed packages

Hi Sebastian, On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 1:09 AM Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > > On 2018-03-11 21:51:05 [+0100], Balint Reczey wrote: > > For the recompressed firefox .deb (Ubuntu's > > firefox_58.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.17.10.1_amd64.deb) increased ~9% in > > size but decompressed in <20% of the

Bug#892664: +1 (Re: Bug#892664: dpkg: Please add support for zstd (Zstandard) compressed packages)

On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 08:54:01PM +0100, Balint Reczey wrote: > I'm wondering if decompression support could be accepted for Bullseye, > to let compression being enabled, too, in Bookworm. I'd love to see this as well - and wouldn't mind having both for Bullseye ;) -- cheers, Holger

Bug#892664: dpkg: Please add support for zstd (Zstandard) compressed packages

On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 8:54 PM Balint Reczey wrote: > > Control: retitle -1 dpkg: Please add decompression support for zstd > (Zstandard) compressed packages And the updated patch I forgot to attach. -- Balint Reczey Ubuntu & Debian Developer From b32b384666cd7ef61f61d7ba4761b03bd61af776 Mon

Bug#892664: dpkg: Please add support for zstd (Zstandard) compressed packages

Control: retitle -1 dpkg: Please add decompression support for zstd (Zstandard) compressed packages Hi Guillem, On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 5:04 AM Guillem Jover wrote: > > Hi! > > On Wed, 2018-04-18 at 11:56:27 +0200, Balint Reczey wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 3:51 AM, Balint Reczey > >

Processed: Re: Bug#892664: dpkg: Please add support for zstd (Zstandard) compressed packages

Processing control commands: > retitle -1 dpkg: Please add decompression support for zstd Bug #892664 [dpkg] dpkg: Please add support for zstd (Zstandard) compressed packages Changed Bug title to 'dpkg: Please add decompression support for zstd' from 'dpkg: Please add support for z

Bug#892664: dpkg: Please add support for zstd (Zstandard) compressed packages

On 2018-03-11 21:51:05 [+0100], Balint Reczey wrote: > For the recompressed firefox .deb (Ubuntu's > firefox_58.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.17.10.1_amd64.deb) increased ~9% in > size but decompressed in <20% of the original time: So you are saying that the decompression speed that is the bottleneck here?

Bug#892664: dpkg: Please add support for zstd (Zstandard) compressed packages

Hi! On Wed, 2018-04-18 at 11:56:27 +0200, Balint Reczey wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 3:51 AM, Balint Reczey > wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 3:38 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: > >> On Sun, 2018-03-11 at 21:51:05 +0100, Balint Reczey wrote: >

Bug#892664: dpkg: Please add support for zstd (Zstandard) compressed packages

Hi Guillem, On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 3:51 AM, Balint Reczey wrote: > Hi Guillem > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 3:38 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: >> Hi! >> >> On Sun, 2018-03-11 at 21:51:05 +0100, Balint Reczey wrote: >>> Package: dpkg >>> Version:

Bug#892664: dpkg: Please add support for zstd (Zstandard) compressed packages

Hi Guillem On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 3:38 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, 2018-03-11 at 21:51:05 +0100, Balint Reczey wrote: >> Package: dpkg >> Version: 1.19.0.5 >> Severity: wishlist >> Tags: patch > >> Please add support for Zstandard compression to dpkg and other

Bug#892664: dpkg: Please add support for zstd (Zstandard) compressed packages

On Sun, 2018-03-18 at 04:38:15 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > Thanks. I started implementing this several weeks ago after having > discussed it with Julian Andres Klode on IRC, but stopped after seeing > the implementation getting messy given the current code structure. > In any case, as I

Bug#892664: dpkg: Please add support for zstd (Zstandard) compressed packages

Hi! On Sun, 2018-03-11 at 21:51:05 +0100, Balint Reczey wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.19.0.5 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > Please add support for Zstandard compression to dpkg and other > programs generated by the dpkg source package [1]. Thanks. I started implementing this several

Bug#892664: dpkg: Please add support for zstd (Zstandard) compressed packages

Package: dpkg Version: 1.19.0.5 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Dear Dpkg Developers, Please add support for Zstandard compression to dpkg and other programs generated by the dpkg source package [1]. Tests on packages repackaged with zstd -19 show little increase in compressed package size