W: No zstd in /usr/bin:/sbin:/bin, using gzip

[adrelanos]

During initramfs creation.

W: No zstd in /usr/bin:/sbin:/bin, using gzip

Should zstd get installed by default?

[mika]

Yeah, I think we can start shipping zstd by default. But given that it started to show up in 2015 within Debian, it would be interesting to know since which release it's available. (I'm not strictly saying we shouldn't modify the main packages, but I'm also reluctant about breaking backwards comparability. But maybe it's also good time to think about ways how to implement a better packages file handling, related to e.g. #44 + #98).

[paulmenzel]

It’s in Debian 10 (buster). Are older releases supported by grml-debootstrap?

[mika]

It’s in Debian 10 (buster). Are older releases supported by grml-debootstrap?

Yes, see releasetable.txt:

.Current status
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|======================
|Release  |Status
|jessie   |works[1]
|stretch  |works[1]
|buster   |works[1]
|bullseye |works
|bookworm |works
|sid      |works[2]
|======================

(Reworking the package handling to make this per Debian release is on our wish list)

[paulmenzel]

From Debian BTS bug report #882244 (zstd: add zstd package to jessie-backports), I’d say it is not present in Debian 8 (jessie) proper and only in jessie-backports.

[paulmenzel]

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