On Fri, Dec 27, 2019, 16:31 Robin Broda via arch-dev-public < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hello everyone, > > We have just tested and released everything necessary for zstd packages in > our repos. > > Right now, the updated devtools is still in [testing], > but our preliminary testing shows that nothing immediately combusted on > release, so I'm confident. > > Once it has left testing, packages built with devtools will automatically > use zstd with the correct options. > > There is no intervention necessary, this should be an essentially > transparent process. > > > Happy packaging and greetings from 36c3. > We found out that the historical archive uploader is broken as python doesn't have native zstd support in the tarfile package. We're trying to fix this currently.
