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by kzrdude 814 days ago
Huge effort, because it is the default .deb compressor in Debian for example
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rthnbgrredf 814 days ago
Arch Linux has replaced it with zstd in 2020 already. It's doable for the next major release of Debian.
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kzrdude 814 days ago
Certainly, but we need an xz decompressor to read the current debian repo versions for the next decades, when they are oldstable or archived.
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formerly_proven 813 days ago
Decoding is easy.
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