The Debian maintainer is too busy to take care of the package. There's a user-contributed packaging at git://git.breakpoint.cc/bigeasy/xz- utils-debian.git that the maintainer gave a nod of approval and then sat on it for lamost half a year now. This should have shipped in Xenial already. Ubuntu should act now instead of waiting endlessly for an important feature in xz (multi-threading to take advantage of multiple cores to do the heavy lifting).
** Description changed: Willy is currently using a really old version of xz-utils. The latest - version at this time is 5.2.1 released on 2015-02-26 + version at this time is 5.2.2, released in September 2015. With multi- + core support it adds an important feature for xz. http://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=blob;f=NEWS;hb=HEAD ** Changed in: xz-utils (Ubuntu) Milestone: None => ubuntu-16.07 ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #731634 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=731634 ** Changed in: xz-utils (Debian) Status: New => Unknown ** Changed in: xz-utils (Debian) Remote watch: Debian Bug tracker #777267 => Debian Bug tracker #731634 ** Summary changed: - xz-utils package is really, really old + xz-utils package is really, really old and should be updated to 5.2.2 with multi-core support -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1493999 Title: xz-utils package is really, really old and should be updated to 5.2.2 with multi-core support To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xz-utils/+bug/1493999/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
