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deb v. 5.8 is not installable on Debian #9472

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JabRef version

5.8 (latest release)

Operating system

GNU / Linux

Details on version and operating system

Debian 11 Bullseye

Checked with the latest development build

  • I made a backup of my libraries before testing the latest development version.
  • I have tested the latest development version and the problem persists

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

Deb file of v. 5.8 is not installable due to unknown compression. Here is the steps to reproduce and the log:

  1. sudo apt -f install ./jabref_5.8_amd64.deb
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'jabref' instead of './jabref_5.8_amd64.deb'
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  jabref
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/187 MB of archives.
After this operation, 227 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 ~/Scaricati/App/jabref_5.8_amd64.deb jabref amd64 5.8.60000 [187 MB]
dpkg-deb: error: archive '~/Scaricati/App/jabref_5.8_amd64.deb' uses unknown compression for member 'control.tar.zst', giving up dpkg: error processing archive ~/Scaricati/App/jabref_5.8_amd64.deb
 (--unpack):
 dpkg-deb --control subprocess returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ~/Scaricati/App/jabref_5.8_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Many thanks in advance,

Appendix

Log File
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'jabref' instead of './jabref_5.8_amd64.deb'
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  jabref
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/187 MB of archives.
After this operation, 227 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 ~/Scaricati/App/jabref_5.8_amd64.deb jabref amd64 5.8.60000 [187 MB]
dpkg-deb: error: archive '~/Scaricati/App/jabref_5.8_amd64.deb' uses unknown compression for member 'control.tar.zst', giving up dpkg: error processing archive ~/Scaricati/App/jabref_5.8_amd64.deb
 (--unpack):
 dpkg-deb --control subprocess returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ~/Scaricati/App/jabref_5.8_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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