Re: zstd compression for packages

2018-03-16 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Julian, Thanks for posting about this. I agree that if this is landing in dpkg+apt upstream, it's reasonable to try to get it into the 18.04 release so that it can be used in later releases without needing a dpkg versioned pre-depends. If we are to evaluate using zstd as the default compressi

Re: git-ubuntu 0.7.3 in edge/candidate/stable channels [Was Re: git-ubuntu 0.7.1 in edge/candidate/stable channels]

2018-03-16 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 2:45 PM, Nish Aravamudan wrote: > On 12.03.2018 [11:59:11 -0700], Nish Aravamudan wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 2:00 PM, Nish Aravamudan >> wrote: >> Once that is done, we will start the 'keep-up' script again, which >> will spend some time catching up the repositori