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Is there anything hold this package back from getting updated to a current release?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What is the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; apt-cache policy lz4

Thanks

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Bryan (suprafreehand) said : 		#2

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial
Linux example 4.4.0-104-generic #127-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 11 12:16:42 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
N: Unable to locate package lz4

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Bryan (suprafreehand) said : 		#3

These are the 2 I have installed:

sudo apt search lz4
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done

liblz4-1/xenial,now 0.0~r131-2ubuntu2 amd64 [installed]
  Fast LZ compression algorithm library - runtime

liblz4-tool/xenial,now 0.0~r131-2ubuntu2 amd64 [installed]
  Fast LZ compression algorithm library - tool

https://github.com/lz4/lz4/releases

As you can see r131 is from 2015.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

What is the output of:

apt-cache policy lz4

Thanks

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Bryan (suprafreehand) said : 		#5

N: Unable to locate package lz4

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#6

Ubuntu is taking over a part of its packages from Debian, and as far as I can see, in Debian there is already the newest version lz4 1.8.0-2, but only in experimental.

I assume that after a reasonable amount of testing and verification, this version will also be made available in Debian unstable and/or testing, and this is the moment that Ubuntu will also consider that package version for including in its development version. My guess is that this might be in Ubuntu 18.10 or 19.04

see also https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/lz4

Eventually you can find a PPA with this version (standard disclaimer for PPAs applies of course).

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Bryan (suprafreehand) said : 		#7

Alright I'll take this up with them.

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Bryan (suprafreehand) said : 		#8

The package moved into 'unstable' now.

https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/lz4.git/commit/

Thanks to Nobuhiro Iwamatsu for all the effort!

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Bryan (suprafreehand) said : 		#9

The 1.8.1 package migrated from 'unstable' to 'testing'.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/lz4

Now that it's part of Debian 10 will it be considered? Or will it have to make it to 'stable'?

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#10

I assume that it will be considered for the next Ubuntu release (18.10), but no more for 18.04 when published, because Debian import freeze was already six weeks ago.

Maybe an SRU makes sense, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

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