Re: Are gzip-compressed substitutes still used?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> skribis:

> On 2021-03-17, Léo Le Bouter wrote:
>> Just as a reminder siding with vagrantc here:
>>
>> We must ensure the Debian 'guix' package can still work and upgrade
>> from it's installed version, so ensure that removing gzip doesnt break
>> initial 'guix pull' with it.
>
> ... and I would expect this version to ship in Debian for another ~3-5
> years, unless it gets removed from Debian bullseye before the upcoming
> (real soon now) release!
>
> But if lzip substitutes are still supported, I *think* guix 1.2.0 as
> packaged in Debian still supports that, at least.
>
> Dropping both gzip and lzip would be unfortunate; I don't think it would
> be trivial to backport the zstd patches to guix 1.2.0, as it also
> depends on guile-zstd?

Indeed.  But don’t worry: we wouldn’t drop both gzip and lzip at once!

Ludo’.