Scott Kitterman wrote: > KDE in Karmic uses XZ for lzma support. I use it fairly frequently for > decompressing lzma .debs without apparent problems.
Thanks for the comment. That is what I am most afraid of. If xz-utils is upgraded to the version in testing, the upgraded xz-utils would not include the lzma symlink. That’s the point of the upgrade: it is not good practice for xz-utils to conflict with lzma, because lzma is essential. To upgrade xz-utils, the user would be without an lzma command for the few moments between when new xz-utils is unpacked and when the lzma package is unpacked. If lzma is needed during that time (for example, to unpack an lzma-compressed .deb), then whatever it is needed for fails. Of course, apt will warn about this in advance. In Debian, the only versions of xz-utils that included the lzma symlink were in experimental. Users of experimental are expected to be able to recover from this kind of breakage. If Ubuntu packagers had asked me what the status of the package was then, I would have said “wait”. (I also could have pointed to a newer version of the package, even then.) Well, one can’t turn back time. In Debian squeeze+1 (or squeeze with luck), a new xz-lzma package will be provided with the /usr/bin/lzma -> xz symlink. This becomes possible as soon as dpkg stops depending on lzma, making the command not essential any more. Hope that helps, Jonathan -- sync request (testing or unstable -> karmic/main) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/528850 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
