[arch-dev-public] zstd rollout complete

[Sven-Hendrik Haase]

On Fri, Dec 27, 2019, 16:31 Robin Broda via arch-dev-public <
arch-dev-public at archlinux.org> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> We have just tested and released everything necessary for zstd packages in
> our repos.
>
> Right now, the updated devtools is still in [testing],
> but our preliminary testing shows that nothing immediately combusted on
> release, so I'm confident.
>
> Once it has left testing, packages built with devtools will automatically
> use zstd with the correct options.
>
> There is no intervention necessary, this should be an essentially
> transparent process.
>
>
> Happy packaging and greetings from 36c3.
>

We found out that the historical archive uploader is broken as python
doesn't have native zstd support in the tarfile package. We're trying to
fix this currently.