Re: [idea]: Switch default compression from "xz" to "zstd" for .deb packages

[Hideki Yamane <henrich@iijmio-mail.jp>]

On Sat, 16 Sep 2023 13:34:02 +0200
Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> wrote:
> That's not correct. dpkg-deb is doing multi-threaded xz decompression
> since 1.21.13, and dpkg-source is doing multi-threaded xz compression
> and decompression since 1.21.14.
> 
> Also the Ubuntu zstd implementation did not have multi-threaded support
> at all, the one implemented in dpkg 1.21.18 does have explicit
> multi-threaded support for _compression_, but AFIUI (from zstd code and
> its API being used in libdpkg) not for decompression.

 Thank you, that was my fault, correct information is very welcoming.
 
 Is there any plan to improve zstd implementation in dpkg?


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Hideki Yamane <henrich@iijmio-mail.jp>