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Bug#955469: initramfs-tools-core: Enable zstandard support

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Am Mittwoch, 29. April 2020 schrieb Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>:

> On Tue, 2020-04-28 at 04:43 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Wed, 01 Apr 2020 09:05:22 +0200 Norbert Lange <nolange79@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > Package: initramfs-tools-core
> > > Version: 0.136
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > > Tags: patch
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > there are Kernelpatches for zstandard initramfs support
> > > available for several years, and will hopefully accepted
> > > upstream soon.
> >
> > If the kernel doesn't yet support it, I'm not sure what the point of
> > supporting it in initramfs-tools is.
> [...]
>
> I see that the kernel support for this has been submitted recently,
> though it's not clear which maintainer is being asked to apply the
> patches.


It's been submitted multiple times over the years, I don't know the lkml
workings, and apparently the author of these changes is missing some detail
too.

Could you kindky point to what's missing? Sending the pull request directly
(not cc) to a maintainer?

I use initramfs-tools (unmkinitramfs in particular) for zstd compressed
initrds since years. The point would be that Debian is a nice distro for
any kind of development, including homebrewn kernels for pet project.
And that zstd is hopefully getting enabled for initrd/kernel in the near
future. It's not like this is an entirely new format.

Norbert

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Bug#955469: initramfs-tools-core: Enable zstandard support Norbert Lange <nolange79@gmail.com> - 2020-04-01 09:10 +0200
  Bug#955469: initramfs-tools-core: Enable zstandard support Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> - 2020-04-01 12:50 +0200
  Bug#955469: initramfs-tools-core: Enable zstandard support Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2020-04-28 05:50 +0200
    Bug#955469: initramfs-tools-core: Enable zstandard support Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2020-04-29 19:00 +0200
      Bug#955469: initramfs-tools-core: Enable zstandard support Norbert Lange <nolange79@gmail.com> - 2020-04-29 21:40 +0200
        Bug#955469: initramfs-tools-core: Enable zstandard support Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2020-05-16 02:00 +0200

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