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
