On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 20:22:36 +0100 Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote: > AFAICS if the threading is enabled in the xz-utils build, then the xz > tool should opportunistically make use of the threaded encoder. That > would cover dpkg-source transparently. > > For the dpkg-deb code, switching to use the multithreaded encoder is > rather easy, but given that the libdpkg/dpkg-deb code is not thread-safe > at all, overall it would be way more tricky. > > But, yes we'd first need the library to be available in testing at > least.
Thanks for your reply, Guillem. Then, Jonathan, is there any reason to not update xz-utils these days? Newer xz has potential to improve debian more. -- Regards, Hideki Yamane henrich @ debian.or.jp/org http://wiki.debian.org/HidekiYamane
