Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to software-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/878354 Title: software-center dependency on lzma is suboptimal Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Third-party .deb packages -- such as Opera and Chrome -- sometimes have their data.tar portion compressed using LZMA. Until Ubuntu 11.10 this wasn't a problem, because the lzma package was installed by default. In 11.10, however, it was not (bug 868188). <http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1124872&t=1318873023&page=1#comment10564932> To work around this problem, software-center 5.0.2 Recommends lzma. However, as described by ruario in that bug report, "the lzma package installs the older lzma utils, which are no longer actively maintained[. T]he upstream maintainer of lzma utils is the same as xz utils. He considers xz to be the replacement for lzma, which is why it is backwards compatible". While the xz-utils source package has been in Main at least since Lucid, the xz-lzma binary package inside it is in Universe. So, xz-lzma should be promoted to Main, apt should use xz-lzma, and software-center should no longer Recommend lzma. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/878354/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp