Comment # 25 on bug 1192457 from Michal Suchanek

(In reply to Martin Wilck from comment #22)
> (In reply to Michal Suchanek from comment #20)
> > (In reply to Dominique Leuenberger from comment #17)
> 
> > > > Everyone understands that if unsurmountable problems occur, the project
> > > > fails. But what happened here is that we pulled back on the first occurence
> > > > of an issue. The side effect of this is that real-world testing effectively
> > > > doesn't happen any more. So possible other issues will not be found, and the
> > > > known ones will be harder to solve.
> > > 
> > > It was not 'pulled back' - but moved to the 'devel area' instead of the
> > > product. OBS is powerful enough to let us work out kinks outside of the
> > > actual product build as long as we need to. And only put it inside the
> > > product when we feel ready for it.
> > 
> > Then you probably want to link Kernel:HEAD rather than Kernel:stable
> 
> That's the point - factory kernels come from Kernel:stable, and by reverting
> to xz in Kernel:stable, the feature was effectively "pulled back" as far as
> the factory kernel is concerned.
> 
> Maybe we should create a temporary branch that's equivalent to Kernel:stable
> but uses zstd?
> 
It's also possible to directly edit config.sh in the linked package.