Martin Pitt wrote:

> As for the lucid sync, does it introduce any new features, ABI changes,
> etc.?

Yes.

ABI and API: The low-level API for examining a compressed file’s Index
information has been improved.  See the 4.999.9beta+20100117-1 changelog
entry for details.  The soname was bumped, but aside from that,
packages in Debian were unaffected by this change: KDE, python-lzma, etc
do not use any of the affected functions.

Features:

 * The semantics of the --force option have changed.  xz will no longer
   compress or decompress special files in place, or read compressed
   data from a terminal or write it to a terminal.
 * New Czech translation (packaged in 4.999.9beta+20100212-4).
 * xz produces sparse files by default when decompressing.  The new
   --no-sparse option disables this feature.
 * New --list option to display information about a compressed file
   (e.g., its uncompressed size).

Packaging details:

 * The xzdec and lzmadec commands have been moved to a separate xzdec
   package.  (They are mostly redundant next to unxz and unlzma.)
 * liblzma-dev no longer ships a .la file.
 * The xz binary is dynamically linked now.

> Has 4.999.9beta+20100212-3 been tested with .lzma packages and
> KDE?

.lzma packages: yes.  KDE: I assume so, since it has been in unstable
for a week now, but I have not tried myself.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan

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