zstd compression for packages

2018-03-12 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Hey folks, We had a coding day in Foundations last week and Balint and Julian added support for zstd compression to dpkg [1] and apt [2]. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892664 [2] https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/merge_requests/8 Zstd is a compression algorithm devel

Re: zstd compression for packages

2018-03-12 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 11:06:11AM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > Hey folks, > > We had a coding day in Foundations last week and Balint and Julian added > support for zstd compression to dpkg [1] and apt [2]. > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892664 > [2] https://sa

Re: zstd compression for packages

2018-03-12 Thread Daniel Axtens
Hi, I looked into compression algorithms a bit in a previous role, and to be honest I'm quite surprised to see zstd proposed for package storage. zstd, according to its own github repo, is "targeting real-time compression scenarios". It's not really designed to be run at its maximum compression le

[17.10] libssl-dev 1.0.2g is 1.0.0

2018-03-12 Thread Frank Rehberger
Hi distribution : artful (ubuntu 17.10) package libssl-dev [1.0.2g] the package libssl-dev claims to be 1.0.2g, but it seems to be older header-version 1.0.0, as it lacks the constant ./crypto/x509/x509_vfy.h:# define X509_V_ERR_INVALID_CALL 65 It seems libssl binary pa

Re: zstd compression for packages

2018-03-12 Thread Robie Basak
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 11:06:11AM +0100, Julian Andres Klode 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. libzstd has only been stable in the archive since Artful. We had to SRU fixes to Xenial becaus

Re: [17.10] libssl-dev 1.0.2g is 1.0.0

2018-03-12 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hello, On 11 March 2018 at 09:05, Frank Rehberger wrote: > Hi > > distribution : artful (ubuntu 17.10) > package libssl-dev [1.0.2g] > > the package libssl-dev claims to be 1.0.2g, but it seems to be older > header-version 1.0.0, as it lacks the constant > > ./crypto/x509/x509_vfy.h:# define

Re: zstd compression for packages

2018-03-12 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 6:06 AM, Julian Andres Klode 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? Thanks, Jeremy Bicha -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-d

Re: zstd compression for packages

2018-03-12 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 01:49:42PM +, Robie Basak wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 11:06:11AM +0100, Julian Andres Klode 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. > > libzstd has only been s

Re: zstd compression for packages

2018-03-12 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 09:30:16AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 9:11 AM, Daniel Axtens > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I looked into compression algorithms a bit in a previous role, and to be > > honest I'm quite surprised to see zstd proposed for package storage. zstd, > > accordin

Re: zstd compression for packages

2018-03-12 Thread Julian Andres Klode
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 > 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 maint

Re: zstd compression for packages

2018-03-12 Thread Robie Basak
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 03:05:13PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 01:49:42PM +, Robie Basak wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 11:06:11AM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > > We are considering requesting a FFe for that - the features are not > > > invasive, and

Re: zstd compression for packages

2018-03-12 Thread Colin Watson
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 > 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 maint

Re: zstd compression for packages

2018-03-12 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 02:19:18PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > 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 > > wrote: > > > We are considering requesting a FFe for that - the features are not > > > invasive, and it allows

Re: zstd compression for packages

2018-03-12 Thread Balint Reczey
Hi Daniel, On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 2:11 PM, Daniel Axtens wrote: > Hi, > > I looked into compression algorithms a bit in a previous role, and to be > honest I'm quite surprised to see zstd proposed for package storage. zstd, > according to its own github repo, is "targeting real-time compression

Re: zstd compression for packages

2018-03-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 03:36:11PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > Acknowledged. I don't think we want to go ahead without dpkg upstream > blessing anyway. On the APT side, we don't maintain Ubuntu-only branches, > so if we get a go-ahead it would land in Debian immediately too. Good. > I had

New Qt5 Uploader - Simon Quigley

2018-03-12 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, Please congratulate Simon on his successful Ubuntu Qt5 Uploaders application! Being part of the team, tsimonq2 now has upload rights to Qt5 packages in the Ubuntu archives. Cheers! -- Ɓukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak Foundations Team lukasz.zemc...@canonical.com www.canonical.com --

Re: git-ubuntu 0.7.3 in edge/candidate/stable channels [Was Re: git-ubuntu 0.7.1 in edge/candidate/stable channels]

2018-03-12 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 2:00 PM, Nish Aravamudan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 5:20 PM, Nish Aravamudan > wrote: >> On 28.02.2018 [21:33:38 -0800], Nish Aravamudan wrote: >>> Hello all! >>> >>> I am happy to announce the release of git-ubuntu 0.7.1 to all channels >>> today. >> >> I encountered