General | Migrate vom p7zip to new 7-Zip for Linux

[MichaIng]

https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/cec5e63147/

Awesome, Igor provides official 7-Zip console version for Linux now!! Since p7zip did't show development for five years, this is highly welcome to benefit from all the enhancements that 7-Zip received since v16.02.

The community will need some time to create/merge the build scripts/instructions, but I'll start testing the binary on VM. Debian won't ship packages anymore (with Bullseye) I think, so will ship an own one.

[MichaIng]

First test as of an issue with p7zip (#4251) and the 7zz x64_64 binary works perfectly fine, being fully compatible regarding command options/arguments. They're available for all architectures we support: https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/cec5e63147/
Although RPi ARMv6 needs to be tested. I'm thinking to create own DEB packages to use them as replacement for p7zip.

Compression ratio comparison is outstanding.

[Joulinar]

time to get an own apt server as well 🤣

[MichaIng]

On the ToDo 😄.

[Joulinar]

If I understood correctly, something to be done on server side. Means nothing we could support I guess 🙄

[MichaIng]

If I understood correctly, something to be done on server side. Means nothing we could support I guess 🙄

Not a big deal to host an APT server on dietpi.com. We already host the mirror for Meveric's Odroid repo at https://dietpi.com/meveric/.
I plan apt/ to contain our DEB packages. I already converted quite a few ones which were simple archives at first.

[MichaIng]

Awesome, Debian will have it with Bookworm: https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/7zip
I'll pack it as fast as the first stable release is available, currently it is in beta: https://www.7-zip.org/