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This bug was fixed in the package python-apt - 2.2.0

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python-apt (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Helmut Grohne ]
  * Annotate test dependencies with <!nocheck> (Closes: #980719)

  [ Julian Andres Klode ]
  * debian/rules: Re-enable PIE hardening
  * Mirror list updates
  * debfile: Pass `Name` instead of `Binary` to ExtractTar.
    Passing the binary causes it to fail trying to find the `false`
    compressor when a binary for a given compressor is not installed.
    (LP: #1926437)
  * debian/gbp.conf: Branch name is main

 -- Julian Andres Klode <jak@xxxxxxxxxx>  Thu, 29 Apr 2021 09:49:08
+0200

** Changed in: python-apt (Ubuntu Impish)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  [SRU] Backport zstd support, fix bug in python-apt

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in python-apt package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in apt source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released
Status in python-apt source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in python-apt source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed
Status in python-apt source package in Focal:
  Fix Committed
Status in python-apt source package in Groovy:
  Fix Committed
Status in python-apt source package in Hirsute:
  Fix Committed
Status in python-apt source package in Impish:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  APT in xenial needs to learn about zstd support to enable Launchpad to work with zstd packages.

  python-apt in all releases needs to be adjusted to pass the compressor
  names instead of programs to ExtractTar, as otherwise, if
  /usr/bin/zstd does not exist, it will pass "false" as the compressor,
  and then ExtractTar fails (same for other compressors).

  On hirsute, the python-apt upload also includes some new <!nocheck> annotations for build-dependencies, as it's a straight upload of the 2.2
  stable series.

  [Test plan]
  The apt regression tests cover the compression methods extensively, including even stored compressed lists in /var/lib/apt and fetching Packages files compressed with such methods, for all compression methods.

  The final test is to make apt_inst.DebFile("glibc-doc-
  reference_2.33-0ubuntu2~zstd1_all.deb").control.extractall() from
  1923845 work in python3-apt.

  For hirsute, the build dependency changes will verify themselves
  during the build ;)

  [Where problems could occur]

  APT:

  The changes to APT are adding the zstd compression backend to FileFd
  and then linking it into the configuration. The former is adding new
  code, triggered only on zstd files, and should not be able to cause
  regressions.

  The latter is a bunch of small lines here and there, and it caused
  issues during backporting in the test suite because it expected
  compressors in a specific order. However, chances are that nothing
  else has as stringent requirements as the test suite, so I don't
  believe that is a problem for existing users.

  Bugs can of course be in the code dealing with zstd, and that might
  open you up to security vulnerabilities in the zstd code if you pass
  APT zstd compressed files.

  A regression can be if clients used apt-helper cat-file to cat a zstd-
  compressed file ending in .zst - they'll now get uncompressed content,
  rather than compressed.

  python-apt:

  The change just replaces Binary with Name, aligning the code with APT
  itself, so it's so trivial, we don't expect regressions.

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