On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 01:04:03AM +0100, Tobias Heider wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Tobias Heider <tobias.hei...@canonical.com> > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org > > * Package name : lzfse > Version : 1.0 > Upstream Authors: > URL : https://github.com/lzfse/lzfse > * License : BSD-3-Clause > Description : LZFSE Compression library > > LZFSE is a Lempel-Ziv style data compression algorithm using Finite > State Entropy coding. It targets similar compression rates at higher > compression and decompression speed compared to deflate using zlib. > > I plan to maintain this as part of the bananas team.
Calling all SO versioning experts! The upstream project does not have any shared object version set. A downstream patch was introduced to set one: https://salsa.debian.org/bananas-team/lzfse/-/blob/debian/unstable/debian/patches/0001-debian-set-library-SONAME.patch Upstream has seen no activity since 2017, so trying to interact is assumed to not generate much. Also the ABI is unlikely to change (since no changes are being made). I've previously suggested that maybe it would be better to set a debian-specific version (0d?), to avoid the theoretical situation that upstream one day ships a different ABI under the 1 so version. I would welcome peoples input here on what you think is best from the debian perspective. Obviously we're going to be incompatible with everyone else[1], unless you install/runtime-depend-on the -dev package for the unversioned so symlink. Please speak now before this is submitted for NEW. FWIW lzfse is needed to extract files compressed by Apple and shipped in macOS containing embedded firmwares. See asahi-fwextract ITP: #1055206 Regards, Andreas Henriksson [1]: https://salsa.debian.org/bananas-team/asahi-fwextract/-/blob/debian/unstable/debian/patches/0001-Use-versioned-library-name-for-liblzfse.patch
