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** Also affects: apt (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/878354
Title:
software-center dependency on lzma is suboptimal
Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Third-party .deb packages -- such as Opera and Chrome -- sometimes
have their data.tar portion compressed using LZMA.
Until Ubuntu 11.10 this wasn't a problem, because the lzma package was installed by default. In 11.10, however, it was not (bug 868188).
<http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1124872&t=1318873023&page=1#comment10564932>
To work around this problem, software-center 5.0.2 Recommends lzma.
However, as described by ruario in that bug report, "the lzma package
installs the older lzma utils, which are no longer actively
maintained[. T]he upstream maintainer of lzma utils is the same as xz
utils. He considers xz to be the replacement for lzma, which is why it
is backwards compatible".
While the xz-utils source package has been in Main at least since
Lucid, the xz-lzma binary package inside it is in Universe.
So, xz-lzma should be promoted to Main, apt should use xz-lzma, and
software-center should no longer Recommend lzma.
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