[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#893389: Bug#893389: mc: please add .tar.zst / .tzst support

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Hi Adam,

Why are you filing a feature request for mc in Debian bug database instead of upstream bug tracker? This will only cause additional delay until someone gets to repost and link it. Also, feel free to provide a patch... so far, nobody seemed to be interested in supporting ZSDT.

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> On 18. Mar 2018, at 15:09, Adam Borowski <kilobyte at angband.pl> wrote:
> 
> Package: mc
> Version: 3:4.8.20-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi!
> ZSTD support has just been merged into tar's upstream git.  The extensions
> are .tar.zst and .tzst, just the same as for any other of umpteen compression
> algorithms tar supports.
> 
> As Midnight Commander's release cadence isn't very frequent, it'd be good to
> add this soonish -- as I see, a change done today would be just likely to make
> it to Buster.  And, invoking a too old version of tar is no different than any
> other helper that's not installed.
> 
> Besides upstream git, you can get tar with backported zstd support at
> https://angband.pl/debian/pool/main/t/tar/ (amd64,i386: jessie, armhf:
> stretch, arm64,x32: unstable).
> 
> ZSTD is an awesome compressor, that thrashes competition along the
> speed:ratio envelope all the way from LZO to low-level XZ.  Especially gzip
> and bzip2 have no reason to exist other than for old compat purposes.
> 
> 
> Meow!
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: buster/sid
>  APT prefers unstable-debug
>  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-rc5-debug-00026-gca682bdc52ca (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
> 
> Versions of packages mc depends on:
> ii  libc6         2.27-2
> ii  libext2fs2    1.44.0-1
> ii  libglib2.0-0  2.56.0-2
> ii  libgpm2       1.20.7-5
> ii  libslang2     2.3.2-1
> ii  libssh2-1     1.8.0-1
> ii  mc-data       3:4.8.20-1
> 
> Versions of packages mc recommends:
> ii  mime-support  3.60
> ii  perl          5.26.1-5
> ii  unzip         6.0-21
> 
> Versions of packages mc suggests:
> pn  arj                              <none>
> ii  atril [pdf-viewer]               1.20.0-1
> ii  bzip2                            1.0.6-8.1
> pn  catdvi | texlive-binaries        <none>
> pn  dbview                           <none>
> pn  djvulibre-bin                    <none>
> ii  file                             1:5.32-2
> pn  genisoimage                      <none>
> pn  gv                               <none>
> ii  imagemagick                      8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3+b1
> ii  imagemagick-6.q16 [imagemagick]  8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3+b1
> pn  libaspell-dev                    <none>
> pn  links | w3m | lynx               <none>
> pn  odt2txt                          <none>
> pn  poppler-utils                    <none>
> ii  python                           2.7.14-4
> pn  python-boto                      <none>
> pn  python-tz                        <none>
> ii  zip                              3.0-11+b1
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
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