[Bug 1629356] Re: update libzstd package in xenial

2017-12-15 Thread Dylan A.
Hi, Too many changes to be updated in released Ubuntu according to the Ubuntu policy [1] but it can be probably easily backported as it was already done for Debian oldstable [2]. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates [2] https://tracker.debian.org/news/889279 ** Package changed: lib

[Bug 1629356] Re: update libzstd package in xenial

2017-10-16 Thread Yann Collet
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[Bug 1629356] Re: update libzstd package in xenial

2017-09-11 Thread Yann Collet
I confirm this is a serious issue. Xenial is LTS version for Ubuntu, so it's going to stay around for a long time. Meanwhile, zstd v0.5.1 is an experimental version using an incompatible format. It cannot read from zstd v1+. It generates data in a format that normal programs without legacy support