Hello again, We are on our way to getting zstd merged. The planned merge window for this is **2019/12/27** at around 20:00 Europe/Berlin time. Several team members will be meeting at the 36c3, so we figured this is a good opportunity to do this, as it makes sure that several people are aware, ready, and together for this - should anything immediately explode. This has been ACK'd by anthraxx. Foxboron is also aware. I have been mentioning this on IRC, and discussed it with anthraxx via e-mail. This mail serves to formalize the plans. **There is one hard requirement on the merge happening:** All critical Arch Linux production infrastructure needs to be ready. The known-unsolved problems are labelled below, please see to them if any of you can. I will also take a look myself, but I do not have much involvement with these parts of the puzzle, so I would really appreciate someone with more in-depth knowledge taking a look. If the known issues are solved and nothing major comes up, the deployment will happen as planned. On 12/8/19 1:39 PM, Robin Broda via arch-dev-public wrote:
What still needs to be done: - infrastructure: - nginx rewrite rules hardcode xz PKGEXT https://github.com/archlinux/infrastructure/blob/7d0ad69030982875f862bc49166... - archive config(?) hardcodes PKGEXT https://github.com/archlinux/infrastructure/blob/7d0ad69030982875f862bc49166...
Unsolved: This needs fixing. I would *really* like someone from devtools to take a look at this, but if unsolved i will also attempt to fix it.
- archivetools: https://github.com/archlinux/archivetools/issues/6
Unsolved: This needs fixing. If nobody else gets to it, I'll see to it myself.
- namcap? some files refer to a hardcoded .xz, though jelle concluded that this is irrelevant
Solved: This is indeed irrelevant (see Eli's reply)
- srcpac (is this still used?)
Solved: This is indeed a dead project (see Eli's reply)
- kde-build hardcodes pkg.tar.xz https://git.archlinux.org/kde-build.git/tree/build-packages?id=cda04698f4064...
Solved: arojas said this will be fixed after zstd is deployed. This is also non-critical.
- devtools: Solved: Patches ready, will be merged with the switcharoo.
I encourage every Arch Linux project maintainer to check their own code for hardcoded xz extensions, you probably know your code best. Please -- Rob (coderobe) O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org