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		kzrdude on April 3, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reflections on Distrusting xz Huge effort, because it is the default .deb compressor in Debian for example

rthnbgrredf on April 3, 2024 [–]

Arch Linux has replaced it with zstd in 2020 already. It's doable for the next major release of Debian.

kzrdude on April 3, 2024 | [–]

Certainly, but we need an xz decompressor to read the current debian repo versions for the next decades, when they are oldstable or archived.

formerly_proven on April 3, 2024 | | [–]

Decoding is easy.

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