'wordfence.deb' uses unknown compression for member 'control.tar.zst', giving up

[pschonmann]

Hi, ive tried to install 5.0.2rc5 but this gives me error

dpkg -D1 -i wordfence.deb 
D000001: ensure_diversions: new, (re)loading
D000001: ensure_statoverrides: new, (re)loading
dpkg-deb: error: archive 'wordfence.deb' uses unknown compression for member 'control.tar.zst', giving up
dpkg: error processing archive wordfence.deb (--install):
 dpkg-deb --control subprocess returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 wordfence.deb

I have zstd installed in this version

dpkg -l | grep zstd
ii  zstd                                1.4.8+dfsg-2.1                                     amd64        fast lossless compression algorithm -- CLI tool

Its debian 11

[akenion]

Please note that RC versions (such as 5.0.2rc5) are just release candidates and have not been tested or approved by our QA team, so we do not recommend using them in production environments and cannot officially support them.

I was able to recreate this issue, though. We are building the .deb packages on Ubuntu 22.04 which has different compression support than Debian 11. I am looking into how to best support both platforms.

[akenion]

@pschonmann this issue should be addressed in v5.0.2rc6. The .deb package should install on Debian 11 now. Note that Debian 11 is currently an LTS release and is nearing end of life so we will no longer support it after that occurs.