Public bug reported:

[Availability]

 * In Universe, on all supported arches, since xenial

[Rationale]

 * In use by btrfs-progs[-udeb] in main
 * To be used by apt & dpkg
 * Already in use by the kernel for initramfs compression, however that is 
using in-kernel implementation

[Security]

 * https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=zstd -> none
 * Hardenening flags is available
 * There are some compiler warnings

[Quality assurance]

 * Maintained in debian med team
 * xnox has upload rights, and fixed up for it to be Multi-arch sane
 * testsuite is enabled and passing
 * lacks autopkgtests, could be added to run the test-suite

[Dependencies]

 * Currently has only glibc as depedency
 * Command line tool can be compiled with gzip (already eanbled), xz/lzma/lz4 
(not enabled), thus making the zstd util to cover all cases of 
compress/decompress/cat/less for any of these algos.

[Standards compliance]

 * Complies with debian packaging guidelines
 * Currently does not build reproducibly

[Maintenance]

 * Med, D-I teams in Debian, and foundations in Ubuntu

[Background information]

 * A new compression algorithm from facebook, which is comparable to
gzip, yet faster / less resource intensive than xz.

** Affects: libzstd (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
     Assignee: MIR approval team (ubuntu-mir)
         Status: Confirmed

** Changed in: libzstd (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: libzstd (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: libzstd (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => MIR approval team (ubuntu-mir)

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