[Bug 2002057] Re: Upstream zstd/zstandard support into Debian

[Julian Andres Klode]

The code was submitted to Debian years before we started using it in
Ubuntu, the rest is up to the Dpkg maintainer. We've tried long and hard
to get this in multiple times but the dpkg maintainer eventually started
working on multi-threaded xz decompression instead and dismissed the
zstd approach.

My understanding is that the plan is to add decompression support before
the Debian freeze as he finally got worn down enough by people
complaining they can't host Ubuntu repositories on Debian systems and
stuff.


** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Upstream zstd/zstandard support into Debian

Status in dpkg package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Non-supporting zstd by Debian `dpkg` causes interoperability issues.
  It may make sense to isolate the code implementing zstd support and
  upstream it into Debian.

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