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FS#60933 - [squashfs-tools]: Enable zstd support in squashfs-tools

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Tobias Hunger (hunger) - Thursday, 29 November 2018, 20:46 GMT
Last edited by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Thursday, 29 November 2018, 21:27 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

squashfs has zstd support enabled in the kernel. Please enable support for that in the user-space tools as well.

Upstream is basically dead nowadays, but there is a squashfs-tools-git in AUR that has the zstd support. Unfortunately that
fails to build here:-/

Additional info:
* linux 4.19
* squashfs-tools 4.3
This task depends upon

Closed by  Eli Schwartz (eschwartz)
Thursday, 29 November 2018, 21:27 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  That's not how distribution packaging works. Wait for the official release.
Comment by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Thursday, 29 November 2018, 21:26 GMT
We're not rolling a git release for a feature request, luckily upstream is not dead and already stated the intent to release a stable version sometime soon -- as you know because you commented there: https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools/issues/54

Aside: "please do this thing that doesn't compile" is terribly uninspiring.

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