[Bug 1493999] Re: xz-utils package is really, really old

[Rolf Leggewie]

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

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Title:
  xz-utils package is really, really old and should be updated to 5.2.2
  with multi-core support

Status in xz-utils package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in xz-utils package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  Willy is currently using a really old version of xz-utils. The latest
  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

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