Re: Q: xz multi-threaded compression support and dpkg-dev
Hi!
On Mon, 2015-11-16 at 02:37:44 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 20:22:36 +0100
> Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> wrote:
> > AFAICS if the threading is enabled in the xz-utils build, then the xz
> > tool should opportunistically make use of the threaded encoder. That
> > would cover dpkg-source transparently.
> >
> > For the dpkg-deb code, switching to use the multithreaded encoder is
> > rather easy, but given that the libdpkg/dpkg-deb code is not thread-safe
> > at all, overall it would be way more tricky.
> >
> > But, yes we'd first need the library to be available in testing at
> > least.
>
> Thanks for your reply, Guillem.
> Then, Jonathan, is there any reason to not update xz-utils these days?
> Newer xz has potential to improve debian more.
Starting with dpkg 1.18.4, multithreaded xz compression should be
supported out-of-the-box when using a recent enough xz command-line
tool and liblzma. dpkg should in principle just only need a rebuild,
although I've not run-tested the code, only build tested it.
I think Jonathan would appreciate help with the new upstream version,
as he mentioned on bug #731634.
Thanks,
Guillem
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