Bug#1032662: elpa-debian-el: deb-view fails on zstd compressed debs
On 2023-03-11 07:49 -0800, David Bremner wrote:
> Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:
>
> Control: severity -1 wishlist
>
>> Package: elpa-debian-el
>> Version: 37.10
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Visiting zstd compressed .deb files in deb-view mode-fails with a tar
>> error, here is a backtrace after toggling debug-on-error.
>
> Hi Sven;
>
> At least until Debian is using zstd this seems like a feature request to
> me, setting the severity (and hopefully expectations) appropriately.
No packages in Debian are using zstd compression, but Ubuntu switched to
it as default in 2021. So there are a lot of packages out in the wild
there, and on Ubuntu derivatives deb-view.el is basically useless.
Anyway, my expectations are not too high as nobody currently takes care
of {debian,dpkg-dev}-el. My recommendation to use dpkg-deb to extract
the data.tar.* archive (see #878900) still stands, but I don't know
if/when I will be able to develop a patch for that.
Cheers,
Sven
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