On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 at 14:26, Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 at 13:07:50 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote: > >This is only a corner case anyway, kernel images should use zboot > >instead of shipping compressed files, as firmwares cannot handle that > >anyway. It's only an issue with some Ubuntu architectures other than > >x86_64. > > Should python3-zstandard perhaps be a Recommends (or lower) on the > architectures that don't need it, if not all do?
Cross-building is supported, and arm64 needs it, which is a release architecture, so I don't think that would improve the situation much. I'll try to look into fixing python3-zstandard, it's unfortunate that the zstd transition was started to late