On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 01:45:07PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> (ZSTD)
>
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 07:02:12AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > Recently Julian mentioned it again on IRC, and we each started
> > implementing support in dpkg and apt respectively, to allow easier
> > evaluation. I sto
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 02:01:44PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 01:45:07PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > Don't. For .debs, that is.
>
> Scratch that.
>
> apt Depends: libapt-pkg5.0 Depends: libzstd1
>
> While apt is "merely" priority:required rather than fully essenti
Guillem Jover writes ("RFC: Support for zstd in .deb packages?"):
> * Eternity contract: This would add yet another format that would need
> to be supported pretty much forever, to be able to at least unpack
> .deb's that might be available in the wild. This also increases the
> (Build-)Essen
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 01:45:07PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> Don't. For .debs, that is.
Scratch that.
apt Depends: libapt-pkg5.0 Depends: libzstd1
While apt is "merely" priority:required rather than fully essential, a
Debian system without apt is so deeply embedded it already requires speci
(ZSTD)
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 07:02:12AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Recently Julian mentioned it again on IRC, and we each started
> implementing support in dpkg and apt respectively, to allow easier
> evaluation. I stopped when I realized the code was getting too messy,
> but after few weeks
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 07:02:12AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> (And BTW I do not consider the current support in Ubuntu a deciding
> factor in any way, while it could perhaps fragment the .deb ecosystem,
> that's something for them to deal with IMO; should really start adding
> the vendor to the
Hello,
On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, Guillem Jover wrote:
> But in any case, I'm still open to data and opinions given that this
> is in the end a matter of trade-offs, so → request for comments. :)
I believe that the "zstd" compression format is providing an interesting
trade-off compared to other compre
Hi Guillem.
I have no real opinion on this.
Guillem Jover - 27.04.18, 07:02:
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> In 2016 Paul Wise mentioned the Zstandard compressor on IRC [Z],
> and I briefly checked it out as a potential candidate for dpkg
> (while also mentioning it to Julian Andres Klode who was considering
> adding lz4
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