Hi! On Tue, 2023-11-21 at 23:58:00 +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > >This package uses this option, so I was wondering whether it can be > >removed now? > > I would very much like to keep this option. It allows users of > older (in some cases very old) distributions to install the > binary packages of newer versions without bpo, which stops being > available pretty soon, and avoids certain shenaningans on the > *buntu side as well. > > The “very old” here is indeed somewhat relevant as a certain > “multimedia” distribution used a lot by musicians bases on > trusty out of all things, and who knows what else.
Checking https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases it looks like that will reach EOL during early 2024. I see Ubuntu also backported the relevant change to dpkg in <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/1.17.5ubuntu5.8>, so perhaps that's also a viable option for those users? > The ability to just install the .deb files makes live easier > in these cases. If you remove the option I’ll most likely switch > the package compression to gzip (which tbh shouldn’t enlarge the > files, except the HQ one as it isn’t already Vorbis-compressed, > by too much) so if you still want this, I won’t stand in the way. I've tried building at least the musescore-* packages with gzip and for the not-small ones the differences seem substantial. So if the above (waiting for EOL, or the dpkg update, or compressing everything with gzip) are not good options, I guess I could wait a bit more until say dpkg 1.23.x? It's not urgent, it would just be nice to get rid of them. :) Thanks, Guillem
