Bug#1100629: systemd-ukify: ability to use a different zstd implementation

[Luca Boccassi]

On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 at 14:26, Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 at 13:07:50 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> >This is only a corner case anyway, kernel images should use zboot
> >instead of shipping compressed files, as firmwares cannot handle that
> >anyway. It's only an issue with some Ubuntu architectures other than
> >x86_64.
>
> Should python3-zstandard perhaps be a Recommends (or lower) on the
> architectures that don't need it, if not all do?

Cross-building is supported, and arm64 needs it, which is a release
architecture, so I don't think that would improve the situation much.
I'll try to look into fixing python3-zstandard, it's unfortunate that
the zstd transition was started to late