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The article currently lists gzip, bzip2, xz, and lzma as supported formats for the data tarball and gzip or xz as supported for the control tarball. While this is currently the case for Debian, Ubuntu
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though it's not there yet. Is it worth amending the article to include a reference to zstd compression or should it wait for it to become official Debian policy (assuming it does)?
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I need some historic information. When .deb format was invented? Which year? And who is author(s)? (Merdok?) Where first documents on the format was published?
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employee; I just happened across this article while working on a part of our deb-building infrastructure and was interested to note that zstd wasn't listed)
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the dead link was the reason for changing it. I'm open to suggestions but I think the choices should be confined to the debian domain. Some choices perhaps:
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I think the wiki link seems the best option unless you can find a better solution.
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of both inner archives prior to the focal release. Debian appears to be
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