[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#908834: please build libzstd udeb so that btrfs-progs can use zstd in Debian Installer

[Nicholas D Steeves]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 04:51:49PM +1100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 at 15:54, Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Alex, Cyril, Dimitri, and anyone else reading this,
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 08:41:18PM +0100, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Nicholas, it is in the new queue:
> > >
> > >  https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/libzstd_1.3.5+dfsg-2.html
> > >
> > > We just need to wait or ?
> >
> > I fear that waiting will put us too close to the freeze, and then it
> > will be an inappropriate time to make these changes.  I've asked
> > #ftp-masters on irc.oftc about the status of libzstd in NEW (2 months
> > and counting)
> >
> > Cyril and Dimitri, if either of you have a chance to ask an ftp-master
> > for feedback, and it wouldn't be too much of a bother, would you
> > please?
> 
> 
> I'm happy. From btrfs-progs point of view, it simply needs a binNMU to
> pick up and start using libzstd udeb which release team can schedule.

Brilliant! :-)  It looks like we're finally good to go.

I'll also ask the backports team if that (is_udeb_available)
conditional will now violate backports policy, eg: if it's a problem
that the the stretch-backports btrfs-progs will not have zstd support
when the buster one does.  I worry it might, and will follow up with a
btrfs-progs bug if it does.

Happy New Year!
Nicholas
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