On 10/09/2018 04:32 PM, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > is o > On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 at 12:23, Alex Mestiashvili <ames...@rsh2.donotuse.de> > wrote: >> >> On 09/14/2018 08:04 PM, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: >>> Package: zstd >>> Version: 1.3.5+dfsg-1 >>> Severity: wishlist >>> >>> Dear Debian Med Packaging Team, >>> >>> Would you please build a zstd udeb so that btrfs-progs can use zstd in >>> Debian Installer and Rescue System? It uses zstd for transparent >>> filesystem compression. >>> >>> eg: `chattr +c`, or `btrfs filesystem defrag -c`, or via a mount >>> option `compress=zstd`. I believe the first and last of these use the >>> kernel's libzstd, and that the udeb is primarily required for >>> `btrfs-repair` to handle zstd extents in the Rescue System. Also, please >>> continue to CC Dmitri Ledkov, Debian's btrfs-progs maintainer. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Nicholas >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Debian-med-packaging mailing list >>> debian-med-packag...@alioth-lists.debian.net >>> https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-med-packaging >>> >> >> >> As far as I see it's enough to add udeb stanzas in d/control in order to >> build the udebs[0]. >> Is there anything else to consider before uploading lisbzstd with udebs? >> > > No, that's not at all enough. It ends up creating two empty packages, > without any files in them.
Oh, I see. I thought there is some debhelper magic involved and didn't check the generated packages.. > > One needs to actually install a library into the library udeb and > tools into tools-udeb. > Note for fbtrfs only library-udeb is needed. Does that also apply for btrfs-repair? Initial bug report is about zstd udeb as I see. > > Maybe > https://patches.ubuntu.com/libz/libzstd/libzstd_1.3.5+dfsg-1ubuntu1.patch > is of help That's clear now. Thank you. > > Also do get it reviewed, as last time unwritten rules w.r.t. udebs got > enforced and above patch was rejected on ground of not strict enough > alternative shlibs deps generated. Thank you for clarifying, but I didn't understand the reason of reject :). > > Please figure out what's missing before uploading to avoid a reject again. I've pushed quite the same changes as yours to zstd repository now. @debian-boot folks, please review and please either fix it or explain what is required. Are there any udeb related docs available? Thank you, Alex
