I rebased the patch on the newest version and filed a new MP at [1]. The package is available in a PPA at [2].
When I first prepared this patch, I stumbled upon [3], where there was some resistance in hard coding a compression format upstream due to the technical debt it could cause. Specially when we would want to revert the change once [4] is accepted. Still, I am submitting it there as suggested [5]. I ran the dep8 test suite locally, here is the result summary: On a note for my future self, when reviewing this bug I started wondering (for the second time) why we are only seeing this in Debian an not in older Ubuntu releases. The reason is because zstd support was back-ported all the way down to xenial. [1] https://code.launchpad.net/~athos-ribeiro/ubuntu/+source/autopkgtest/+git/autopkgtest/+merge/412406 [2] https://launchpad.net/~athos-ribeiro/+archive/ubuntu/autopkgtest-use-xz/+packages [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=883167 [4] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892664 [5] https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/-/merge_requests/133 ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #883167 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=883167 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1947810 Title: autopkgtest-satdep.deb unpack fails on Debian images To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autopkgtest/+bug/1947810/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs